I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.

It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it.

Golf is not a matter of life or death. It is much more important than that.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.