Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.

The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.