...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

Sometimes we need to open our eyes wide and intentionally look for Jesus, in the midst of our own worlds.

I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.

It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.

The fans are especially amazing in Mexico. You look out your window, and there are fans that stay out there all night long.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

If there were no Love, there'd be no grief