However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The journey is my home.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Reality is the completion of experience.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

An innocent bureaucratic snafu.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven.