It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size.

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.

I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

If I hear any more loud voices, you will both be auctioned off on eBay. I could use the extra money.

John Wesley’s own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

Power: a currency that never went out of style.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.