I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

Knowledge is the ultimate secret of courage.

The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.

The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.

Your kisses are like miracle fruit that sweetens my life without ruining my diet.

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.