My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

Every new morning is new moment in time.

I used to go to the US Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

There is always enough because I died for you.

She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

We do have the nuclear weapons agreement with Iran, that's an enforcement consequence, action for action, follow on. We have a plan, we will watch them, we will be vigilant.

I'm not the stereotypical blonde vixen girl but rather the blonde freckled girl from Kentucky.

You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.

It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.