Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

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.

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.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask."What does it feel like?

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

I'm an amazing mama's boy.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

Here's the thing about me: I have a job to do and I do it.

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

Going to the mountains is going home.

It's hard to know what you can do just on your own as a new administration.

I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.