Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Memory is a trustworthy servant as long as it is made to serve.

I believe that nothing has been more wholesome for America, for our government, for our politics, than the increased participation of women.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Wisdom is infused into every form.