Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

All language is political.

To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’)

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?

He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.