I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

There are things better left untouched by words.

Will there be cheese?" asked Chisolm.

Too bad he was officially the enemy.

Are you okay?" "Fan-fricking-tastic. Only way today could get better is if I were scheduled for an appendectomy. Without drugs. In a third-world country.

Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.

When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!

I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.