In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

And during.. sometimes you wanna just be you with someone who knows all your secrets

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.