I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit.

We explore to experience, we eat to live and we hate to love

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

Above all else show the data.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.

Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.