Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.

It's impossible to hit a target that you can't see. You must visualize your goal, set a plan and work your plan. Don't make excuses. .. Just make time.

Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

I'm all-American. Sexy but not intimidating. Not the kind of woman who's going to steal someone's husband.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

I've kicked at Notre Dame the past four years, I've been in frigid cold weather, snow. I've kicked at Yankee Stadium in December, so whatever is thrown at me I'm able to do.

With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.