What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

No such thing, the queen said, as too many sequins.

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.

There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem.

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.