You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.