Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

When we were kids and believed that the game was not fair, we stopped playing. Well, the game of governance is not fair, so we need to stop playing along.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

language is never neutral

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

The publishing industry is stuck somewhere in the Jurassic era.