What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

If you do not believe you are a lost sheep, then you do not need a Savior who is the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ. John 10:11-14.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

What should I be but just what I am?

Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

Bullshit, as you Americans say. He's Irish. The Irish say bullshit too.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare