I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

I allow the deities of compassion to fill me with light for the highest good.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

Money has no country.

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

The way people see you is the way you really are.

They're really competitive at drama in Texas.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve.