... people get confidential at midnight.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

Cherish your wilderness.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Your dreams will only take you as far as your faith in them.

Outside the store, beauty and mystery struggled to come together. Inside, they held hands, giggled to one another, and whispered secret messages.

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.