I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

Open your eyes

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently is myself. I really do. I read my own poems obsessively.

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.