As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.