Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

who ever play with play will cry with play

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

When youre in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!

I try my hardest to not let hate mail influence me - because anybody can put out hate, it takes a much stronger person to put out themselves.