If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.