Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice..

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me..

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me..

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore..

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing..

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.