At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality of a book, and the totally intangible experience of reading it.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

I don't even know - for me, it's difficult to decide which is more important - the things or the thoughts. It seems to me that certain things came up more or less naturally.

Some times we choose our fate, ” she said. “Other times it’s chosen for us.” The cleft between his dark brows deepened and his jaw clenched then released. “And sometimes its what we make it.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.

That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper.

Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Don't see anything impossible! This simple philosophy will enable many things to be possible!

Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.