It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Love recognizes no barriers.