Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nations capital.

Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

Baseball is a diversion. It is therapy. It takes peoples minds off of everything that has happened, if just for a while.

My mother was my greatest fan.

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

love means to see the one you love happy

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.