I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.