If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.

The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.

Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

I’ve always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.

Remember your magic.

It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?

I veer more toward the philosophical and the poetic than I do toward the alert and angry.

You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.