Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Questions to be answered by questions itself when you wanna ignore it in first place. It’s better to be diplomatic rather than Ignorant.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

We have to name a problem to solve a problem.

Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

The Web is a compelling new medium being put to all kinds of uses, by everyone from banks to Cub Scouts to flying saucer cults. That said, it can also be a powerful folly amplifier.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

If you don’t vote, you don’t matter.

Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith