“As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.”

“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.”

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.”

“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

“Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”