Dear God, give bread to those who are hungry and a hunger and thirst for justice to those who have plenty. Amen.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

If you would stop worrying about things you don’t control and release what God has put into you, you will change everything around you.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

There is only one legend. That's me

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.