Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder.

Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty

Angels are everywhere. The angelic encounter lies in every given moment.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy