Home is where your books are.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

The soul is awakened through service.

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.