People don't die from suicide, they die from sadness.

Fear and ignorance are the key roots to racism.

Nobody feels anybody else's pains because they're not their.

Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.

The pain from the abuse never went away, I just embraced it to become what I am today

Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.

Letting go is the ultimate weakness.

Never fade into your life, Never stop imagining, Never give up on your dreams, You only fail, when you think you have failed.

In the big scheme of things, all's we really need, is a little love

It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

I don't really take myself very seriously.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.

No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen.