How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

You can't win every week.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

It’s hard to hold a conversation with people when you’re not seeing them.

We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

I don't believe you really know God if you do not recognize His sense of humor.

Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.