A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Christians are expected to carry the marks of the Lord Jesus, not adapt to the fashionable counterculture driven by marketing traps.

The time is now. What you have to do, do it now.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

I guess it's pretty diverse, but I do have quite a 30-and-older male audience coming out to the shows. I don't know if that's due to me being a female or what.

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

The environment is better and better for Democrats.