If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.

And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.