I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.

It is not the size of the dreamer, it is the size of the dream.

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

I remember having my tonsils out when I was fifteen and waking up crying historically but not being able to stop. That was quite strange.

I dislike Ted Cruz as much as the next everyone. But that's no reason to be rude to Ted's loving wife and possible hostage.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.