That's a parents' job, isn't it? To raise a child strong enough to leave and break our hearts?

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?

Prince William and Kate Middleton are in New York City. We have got to do something about immigration.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.