Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

Once upon a timeI fell in loveLost myselfAnd find another one.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Sometimes life gives you a little punch in the stomach... You just gotta catch your breath and keep going.

Every problem has one immediate cause, many remote causes, long term and short term effects

I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

There is no debate whether we need a cultural policy or not. We do need it, but there are different ways of doing it.

I want an identity outside of my work.

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!