We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

You can look anywhere and find inspiration.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Train your subconscious to be positive by using the heart intelligence.

There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you’re having and the one you’re not.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.

Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.