"I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry."

"Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment."

"Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God."

"I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different."

"Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint."

"There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time."

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."