I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Just don't be afraid to be who you are and you will be successful.

Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?

I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

You vote for Hillary Clinton, you're crazy.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.