Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteem

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

Billy Graham is for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.

Peace and love are eternal.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared