I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot.

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing.

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.

my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.

my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.

What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth?

Suicide kills two people.

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.

The more you say, the less people remember.

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.