Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

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

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders.

I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.