No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.

We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.