poems open doors

That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

The Haas is here! And you can't see me!

Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

All earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Clarity precedes success.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.