"I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day."

“The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.”

“I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.”

“Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.”

Source : John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.323

“I was brought up in a world of privilege.”

“Everybody wants ta get inta da act!”

Source : "Billboard" Magazine, (p. 126), April 23, 1949.

“One guy can't create a field, but you can get people thinking.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“You know all the surveys say that evangelicals have the best sex life of any other group.”

Source : "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. January 29, 2007.

“I can't marry myself to one idea or one form of doing politics or one form of understanding politics. I believe that we have to play the game of strategy, and understand how to move the pieces because this is how the political spectrum functions.”