I am the flesh boat of my experiences, we all are , my feelings, thoughts, desires and dreams are captured in my body's pliant cells, fastened onto my DNA.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.

I have always loved too much, or not enough.

We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named.

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us.

There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.

No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

The slave of the belly ponders the menu with which to celebrate the feast. The servant of God, however, thinks of the graces that may enrich him.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am.

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.