Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

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 outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them

You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.

What I like about teaching is the discipline of finding words to unpack the artistic process. And I admire the drive in students who want to write, the mystery of how artistic talent unfolds.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Fall, then figure out what to do on the way down.

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind.

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.