Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

To conquer the unknown you must trust.

The older they get, the better they were when they were younger.

I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.

All the calculations show it can't work. There's only one thing to do: make it work.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.