I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

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

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Myself and Jamie Moffat did not agree on everything but he always knew I had the experience.

I don't like big balls on a dog.

Once the Western mind was disconnected from its sense of divine responsibility and genuine reverence towards nature, all hell broke loose. And that’s where we are now.

I'm a member of the media. I'm America's Anchorman.

Missing rubs the soul raw.

I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.