You should've told me Tess, " I murmured against her hair. "You helped me find my humanness but you took it away with your lies.

I'll be ready when you are, esclave. A life for a life. A tale for a tale.

My worth changes with every choice I make and every action I take. I can choose myself to uselessness or to being valuable.

There can be no light without shadow.

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

I rarely lose my temper anymore.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.