Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

Artemis: How long will it take you to prepare the time spell? N1 chewed his knuckle: About as long as it takes you to take your clothes off. "Aaarrk," Artemis half choked.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.