I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

I've written for every medium except poetry at which I suck.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

Several studies and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts as well as threats to peace can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

Although a soldier by profession I have never felt any sort of fondness for war and I have never advocated it except as a means of peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting which is a style of parenting that... basically the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

Self-preservation nature's first great law all the creatures except man doth awe.

Women by their nature are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.