The monsoons were the real thing

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I just need to make sure I don't get in my own way of a truthful and organic moment. Regardless of the research involved, at the end of the day, I have to show up, breathe, and listen.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.