Here's my struggle-here's my story. Don't feel sorry for me. Even if I had the chance, I wouldn't change a thing.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

These are hard memories, and I will save the rest of the story for another time.

Your skin, and your whole body, goes into repair mode when you sleep.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.

[Donald Trump] would be chaos for the country, I think.