I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

I want a forever with you

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

I think there are things I can't write in English that I wish I could write in Khmer.

Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.