There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

The wolf is living for the earth.

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.

Where white is black and black is white, I won.