What writing does is to reveal.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

Last chance to success is right before your last breath, when you sign away your will. Have patience to declare it as 'the last chance

Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.

Let's stop the drugs and the crime from pouring into our country.

Remember that when you love yourself, you are a greater gift to someone else.

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable.

I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.

What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his dog. This fact is more depressing than any other.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.