Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.

Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

Your path is not narrow... so you can't mess it up.

When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.