I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind.

You can make your dreams come true only when you work hard and be willing to put your effort behind your dreams.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

To carry timber into the wood. [Lat., In silvam ligna ferre.]

Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.