"We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were."

“If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.”

“I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more and more into ceramics, I thought, life drawing doesn't have anything to do with ceramics.”

“Let me make a point here, in case this isn't becoming extremely clear. My state has gun control laws. It did not keep Hennard from coming in and killing everybody! What it did do, was keep me from protecting my family! That's the only thing that cotton pickin' law did! OK! Understand that! That's ...that's so important!”

Source : "Hi Mark, your mention of Waco" by John Robie, www.cnet.com. April 17, 2007.

“Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.”

Source : Jennifer Worth (2005). “Shadows of the workhouse”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

“I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other”

“We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.”

“Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.”

Source : Dean Young (2010). “The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction”, Graywolf Press