There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?

God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them.

Real-time marketing is not for everyone. To take advantage of it, you need to have a clear idea of what it is you want to achieve through it.

Letting ourselves be loved by God is more important than loving God.

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

India is my kid sister.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.