A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float!

The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

The lesson of September the 11th is: Take threats before they fully materialize.

Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.