So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.

I think we carry home on our backs.

The universe gets more disorderly all the time.

We don't know where Millie went, and we don't know if we'll see her again, but there's no reason not to hope. We don't know the answers, and maybe that's a nice thing.

Love is not the opposite of power. Love IS power. Love is the strongest power there is.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.

You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.

And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.