My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

Great depth of beingness and creativity often come with great woundedness.

You have everything when you embrace the full circle of life.

A fuller expression of Self comes from the journey for greater wholeness.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.