There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of trying to zoom in and out,….

The asp doth on his feeder feed..

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to..

If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the co….

I just want to get the most money I can..

Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device..

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now r….

It's fun to act, but for me, it's more fun to actually create the character and act it out knowing that I know everything about this character. That'….

You got to go along to get along..

What are you reading for?.

I don't think America needs 28,000 men on Okinawa. I don't think we need an army in Germany. What's it for, to protect Germans against the Russians, ….

You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will pl….

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born..

Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us..

I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, p….

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else..

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing..

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen..

Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but then re….

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ….

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading. By reading that book we may learn what to believe, what to be, ….