The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.