Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

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

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

Did god make man too perfect, So that a piece has to be removedthrough circumcision?

God timely supply my need.

That is the man you face. He has more honour and integrity than any man I have ever met. He is dedicated to his people and his country. And I am proud to have been his lover.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

Everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not.