All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.

If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.