I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.

When we spend money we lose them forever, when we give them away, we will have them forever.

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

Your Nationality or any other Affiliation isn’t written on your forehead or any visible part of your body. It is shown by the way you Pride Yourself.

Seems hats have been on topOf all the stages comings and goingsHelping us remember heroes and idols

I want you to be happy...to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208