Have you ever been - well, I mean, have you ever - really wanted someone? Wanted them like water in the desert - even when you knew all their faults, every single one - and it didn't matter ?

But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.

Never trust a German to get a sauce right. Their solution to everything is just add more butter.

He doesn't need to tend her, because she hunts her own prey. He doesn't need to shield her, because she kills her own enemies. He doesn't need to look for her, because she's always at his side.

I am strategically and methodically preparing leaders in a more result oriented setting.

Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh, Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Easy to exemplify my true feelings towards him

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.