No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

Read to live, not live to read.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!