We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.

Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.

Real sacrifice comes from self sacrifice.

Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?