As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.

Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

The burning off and the gathering together are one.

The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?

It reveals that people are confusing."Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Spit fire from my hammer like I wasn't God's child.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.