Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. Thats my nature.

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?