One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.