Finding is for things that are lost. You don't need to find me, Mayor.

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

Love never goes away; it just changes form.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.