I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.

Hey, see if they've got any pie. Bring me some pie. I love me some pie.

Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

Many people spend their life always worrying about whether they have enough to cover expenses. They experience unhappiness.

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

I want to go out like a Champion, I want to be carried out

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.