I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.
There are no good saves, there are only weak shots.
I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.
You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in.
Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.
When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. . . . That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency.
Perfection is the enemy of greatness
Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.