I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

It's not pretty, but it's veracious.

Such beautiful strength lives in uncompromising humility.

The best revenge is true forgiveness.

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions...

The very first part in healing is shattering the silence.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.

For to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad?