What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

Fact and fiction are different truths.

There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Even the idea of a fart makes me laugh. Saying the word 'fart' makes me laugh. I have iFart on my phone. I have remote whoopee cushions. Farts. To me, there's nothing funnier.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.