My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.

It is difficult to understand the journey of a hero, ” the whisperer said.

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

Always been a big heavy metal fan. I remember being 15 saying, Dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I'm 60. I'm 35 now. I think I'm going to give it one more year.

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Authority is never without hate.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

I'm not a betting man.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.