Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception

In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.

Life is a book waiting to happen.

Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.

Embrace curiosity, be open, playful, and persistent.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.