To believe in moments makes life endless, no?

Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.

I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.

If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myself—maybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.

I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.

I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.

Lovers have no primary needs

It's the soul that's starving, not the body

Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out.

What the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies.

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

Sweat equity is the best startup capital.

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.