I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Anne Stevenson

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Ansel Adams

It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers

Alexandra Robbins

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Karl Kraus

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

Lucinda Williams

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Steve Case

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

Barack Obama

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Theodore Roosevelt

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Germaine Greer

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Victor Hugo