My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.