Pastoral Resources

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Cameron was able to get an inside look at professional football from the standpoint of athletes and agents and general managers that few people have ever seen.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.