The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat.

From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk.

President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.

I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.