The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.

There is such a shelter in each other.

Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

When we accept God’s invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives.

Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way

The act of seeking is essential to life.

Something larger is happening than just going to heaven.

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

Take me or leave me, I'll never be perfect. Believe me I'm worth it

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

Hey, Vickie, why don't you come down here and reprimand me to my face!

At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.