Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.