You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.

For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.

The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.

Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.

Don't say it...I've seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty.