Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Leaning forward he placed his lips over hers. She told herself he was breathing life into her, but the truth was he'd always been sucking it out, slowly, one breath at a time. - From ENGRAVED

Actually it was the mark of the stupid, which is what you get for sitting under a tree during a thunderstorm.

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.

Anybody who gets into bed and turns out the lights the first night in the White House probably feels a little bit of a start, where you say, "Goodness ... "

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

My colors are logically chosen.

As of now, ALL your opinions are rejected." - Ichigo

People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.