Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

If you invite a snake into your home, do not be surprised if it bites you.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

I'll tell you how to get up in the morning......watch for the dawn.

A man who can be provoked by a tweet should not have his fingers anywhere near the nuclear codes.

I've always been a closet jock, but when I got married and had kids, that fell by the wayside.

I'm actually for gun control -- use both hands.

If you want to be like me, work hard and believe in it, and if you don't believe in it, get rid of it.