A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

There is an excitement in creating a life, rather than maintaining a life you are not excited about living.

She kept watching the words.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

I spent the next fifteen minutes convincing a crying werewolf that I wasn’t going to hurt her. My life was getting too strange, even for me.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.