I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

If you really want people to pay attention to how you feel, you need to express your feelings in language that's worth reading.

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward.

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

You may not be a great success in everything, but every time you try you will learn something.

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Experts agree that color can stimulate emotions which evoke different responses. Simply by changing colors, you can change moods, communication, perceptions, energy, and expectations.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

I'm not a comic person at all.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.