Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new

Success in politics is the art of the timely lie.

Okay, so how does this work exactly?" I ask as we walk toward his car. "Do we float down the bayou in rowboat while little critters sing 'Kiss the Girl'.

When you are at the end of the road, turn around and take another road. I promise it will be less painful.

One of the greatest skills—and gifts—is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they’re the only person in the world.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.

When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.