The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Everyday, I end up with your chat on top. Everyday, I end with knowing you a bit more. Don't know whether you're mine or not, but everyday is making me the right person to you.

If you want to live an exceptional life, you must move beyond probability into the realm of possibility

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?

Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.