New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.

The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.