The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

Worrying Never Stops a Problem but a Problem Ceases when you Refuse to Worry

Please kiss that girl a million times.

Value supported family and friends.

We create our own enemies

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

Quiet down, we don't want to wake the Russians.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.