I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

First fight. Then fiddle.

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.