I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Show your love by giving your spouse incredible admiration and encouragement. - A Love Forever, Creating An Amazing Marriage.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

I've been to a lot of photo shoots and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need one.” -Han Solo