Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemonsoff the tree! I don't wantto forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

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.

We can only become who we want to be. Choose success!

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.

Some dark Presence watching by my bed, The awful image of a nameless dread ―

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.