Sometimes people just need thunderbolts. Thunderbolts to climb like stairs. Sometimes people just need a talisman. A promise in the lectern of their hands.

The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and our memory--of this there is no doubt.

We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

I love traveling; it's, like, my perfect escape.

To call me in, I'm thinking I don't own a suit, a ring, a watch, a cellphone. I'm dragging up out of the woods here. You boys must be hard up these days.