Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors." But I've always been somebody who is much more invested in who I am playing than how they look.

I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.