Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air.

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.

When two wise men are blaming one another, then time has come for you to be the third one.

Splash or crash? Do you want special ops messing about in boats? Or special ops messing in aeroplanes?

We must stand together if we don't there will be no victory for any one of us.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!

There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.

I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself.

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.