Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Every great achiever nurtures a positive mindset.

Through the anger came something I recognized

Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

The world we live in today is very, very diverse. It has extremism on one side, it has incredible liberal aspects to it on the other.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.

I believe in making government as Ronald Reagan said. Not the distributor of gifts and privilege but once again the protector of our liberties.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.