The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?

Keep negative people in your prayers, not in your life.

Evil isn't born, Dearie. It's made.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.

There is no more staunch advocate for taking public dollars and giving them to private schools - private schools that can pick the students they want to teach - than Betsy DeVos.

I am a combination of my entire family.

This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions.