WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.

Everybody relates to having a dream.

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.