The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.

Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.