The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.

A rainbow must have its seven colours in order for it to meet beauty. Plurality is beauty and harmony is what adds more lifespan to that beauty

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

Horror make me awake and when I don't think about it but I read it it make me sleepy!

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

You are no more responsible for what that man said than I am. You cannot take the blame for another's actions.

A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining.

My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.