Make the visible a little hard to see.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace.

AWESOME things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up!

Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none, " he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

To allow yourself your own experience is the greatest act of self love

Don't you dare besmirch the name of Congress. They are patriotic Americans trying to dress and feed themselves.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner