I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

If you want to leave your footprints in the sands of time you'll need some roughness and some dirt.

Nick‘s eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in theTwilight Zone?

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

This is Frank Carson, News at Ten, Sober.

The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.