The stars are filming us for no one.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Don't they understand what fiction is?

For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.

I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

Violence is an expression of impotence.

The only way you can hurt the body is not use it.

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates.