Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice?

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Words - as I speak or write them - make a path on which I walk.

The word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

The more you appreciate and celebrate life with joy, the more abundance will fill your life to enjoy.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

In life we have decisions to make, paths to take and opportunities to take advantage of.