The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

I can’t stand to hear his [Obama’s] voice anymore. He’s a liar, and worse.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Friends are born, not made.

Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

When your eyes go, and your legs go, and your fans go; then it's time for you to go too.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.