Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.
Temptation out of reach does you no good.
It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.
I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.
Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.
I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?
Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There was no coming back from that.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person. . . Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.