(It’s) a fair exchange. You’re giving me attention. That’s a form of affection, you know.

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

It’s the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.

Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.

The only thing more unpredictable than magic is language.

Almighty God thy will be done in my life as it is in Heaven, in Jesus Christ name. Amen.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.