I think my writing is part of my ministry.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

For once, the tears wouldn't come. She saw that Michael might have been right. It really could be too cold to snow.

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.

A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.

If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that's not a pun about my size.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.