I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

The most important decision that we can make in our lives is the decision to be happy.

You will never truly realize the value of life until you take your very last breath.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.

We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.

You better be able to defend it after the attack - so don't stretch it. In other words, if the guy's guilty of A and B, don't make him guilty of A, B, and C. That's what a lot of people do.