“I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting...” — Benjamin Watson Quote

“I didn't know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn't get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.”

“My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.”

“You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.”

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.”

“You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look.”