My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics.

Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself

You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

We never talked to each other in my family. We communicated by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

I was ready to die but give my consent never. Never, never.

You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.