A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

Fear must die for your dreams to live.

Your opponents do not want you to persevere

...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.

President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

One swallow never makes a summer.

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

If people tell me that i can't do something, i will want to do it.

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.