There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

It's not that I'm angry

Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success

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

Only the suffering God can help.

...in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in finds such a welcome that she stays.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

There is no gift more great than love.

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.

You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.