there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

The brush of your lips will last my lifetime.

People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

Many times, my intuition wins. I trust my intuition a lot. A lot.

Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.

I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.

The do-not-call registry is still being challenged in court. Yet, the conclusions of the American people, the legislative branch, and the executive branch are beyond question.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.