What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

Art is always an energy exchange.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.