Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.