Without style, there can be no identity.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

For me, the measure of a poem is the word, not the line.

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.

Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes, " he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes, " he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Colin Montgomerie is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal.

To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.

... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.