The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

Indeed His blessings are in the struggle.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.

He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.

If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.

When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.