Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.

I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

circumstances and destiny together play role to our foundation

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

I wish you the beast of luck!

I have a lot of fantasy.

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

I asked my wife, 'Is there somebody else?' She said, 'There MUST be.'

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

I'm as excited as a kid with a new toy to be able to create a unique, exciting, urban superhero for a magazine that I respect as much as VIBE.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.