I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.

Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

God's children have a limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit.

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture.

The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great.