The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

Make every day count, because you're never promised a next day.

Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.

Reason with most people means their own opinions.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.

Ninety percent of the time, I'm wearing imaginary people's clothing. I don't feel a huge pressure to go out and like, hit the town, hit the boutiques.

The Christian views trials as a pathway to maturity.

I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on.

If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.