The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world.

By the time she awoke she couldn’t even remember if she had a dream or a nightmare. There had only been a deathlike peace.

Now to tell ya about our fellow inmates. Pay attention because there are a bunch of us an’ we each have a story.

There’s one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just don’t have anywhere else to go.

Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

It's my story ["Selling Isobel"].I chose to write a screenplay about it because I think film is the quickest medium to get a story out, rather than writing a book.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure