you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.

The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth.