One is always greater than hundred because without one there is no hundred

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Literature is news that stays news.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Man confesses God forgives

Behind every successful man, there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hard working woman.If not every married man would be successful

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83

A broken heart is not a broken glass

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch.Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

I'm here to tell you I do [have a baby bump]. I am not pregnant, but I have had three kids and there is a bump.

Today, we can see with our own eyes what global warming is doing. In that context it becomes truly irresponsible, if not immoral, for us not to do something.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

I wanna smash the faces of those beautiful boys, those Christian boys.