Let me just be in the ground. Let me just be in the ground and go to sleep.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Fight for the things that matter to you. Inspire yourself. Believe in the power of positive thinking.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We are the shadow cast by real people. And that shadow changes shape as the news cycle changes shape, so you always have fresh dirt to dig in.

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.