Our history doesn't look at our own violence, the violence in our own past, and we go out and repeat it someplace else.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Be passionate and become successful. Share your success, be it an information, income and emotions with someone who need them most. You are a success… Make an impact!

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

I respect every opponent no matter their record, no matter their title belts. I approach each opponent the same way.

Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it.The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.