Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

We turn from the light to see.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

...the only thing really worth doing in this life is giving love to everyone around you.

Never stop dreaming or reading.

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

There is no defence that can stop Messi. It is impossible.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.