For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely

A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that - similar to me.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.