Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

I am living. I remember you.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun.""Fun" she said unhappily."Blue elephants.""Blue elephants.""Kiss me you fool.""You fool.

I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank. I was a lunatic.

God extend His power of great mercy and forgiveness to all men.

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

I don't enjoy the work that I do. It's just that it's not self-sustaining anymore. The way that I like to make records - they're expensive records to make and just can't afford to do it anymore.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.