Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, then we shall be free.

Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.