It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief are memory. Again and again, grief holds the same few things.

P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug

Don't worry, I can hander it!

Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: "Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea.

I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.