I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

To enjoy the magnificence of life, keep love blooming in your heart just like flowers bloom in your garden.

Christians are hard to tolerate I don’t know how Jesus does it

When you select a career, it not only affects you but many people who depend on your work.

My Dad once told me: “you will retire only in your grave!”

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.