In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

It is only when people don’t know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance!

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

We don't need to talk. We need to love.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.