Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.

It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.

When the young womanleans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits openuntil her milk runs.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

I love trying to beat what I've done so far.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.