Now I knew that if that's how the devil looks, I wanted to go straight to hell.

I needed to survive tonight to keep living my life as if nothing had happened.

I am with you because I want to be, not because I need you. It's my will be with you. And that makes it much stronger, because God knows I'm as stubborn as they come.

When a girl smiles, she's as beautiful as a blooming flower.

You may delay, but time will not.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

Donald Trump, I'm not afraid of you.

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.