Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.

I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.

That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...

Don't be so proud for being educated then other, you will never able to calculate your own hart-beets

But here we see the peace of God is not the absence of negative thoughts, it is the presence of God himself.

I remember that feeling of skin. It'sstrange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingersstill tingle with it.

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.