Publish. Be damned. Repeat.

Life is fun with my husband.

Don´t make people feel necessarily happy. Make them feel useful.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.