The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.