You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.

Make your ideal your new real.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.

One of the things that drives Trump's popularity is that he sticks it to these people in the media. And people love seeing that.

The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.

And then the screaming begins.