To see the farm is to leave it.
Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.
We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.
The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.
There's a better way to speak out against President Putin and call out his bigotry for exactly what it is: speaking up for equal rights and educating people around the world about the persistence of homophobia. Rather than boycott, I, along with several amazing organizations including Athlete Ally and All Out, plan to use the Sochi Games as a teachable moment for the world.
You know, back in the '70s — I remember the '70s, we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.