You need to have a WhyHaving a “Why” whatever it is, becomes food. It makes your dreams become more urgent.

You have to push beyond every limitation to achieve the goal.

Smile in front of the queen?" she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. 'Surely that's not allowed!

The sparkling light inside of me multiplied billion times, hoping something beautiful will come along the way.

Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.