I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

I think the fans of the old-school Internet shorts were a little bit older just because it was racier material.

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

There is no such thing as human superiority.

If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

It's really hard to name a band.

They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

I've heard I've been called a bad boy, or difficult.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

CrossFit is just another thing I've become passionate about. I like to continue to make gains and compete with myself. There's many ways to do that either with adding weight or competing with my own times or my previous records. It's been nothing but a benefit to me, and I love lifting weights.

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.

I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride thwarted pride.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.