As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself

All we’re trying to do is word the world. Detail is one way we do that. We enumerate, notate, name the things seen.

Goals are important but what you become to achieve goals is much more important.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Folk Music is the map of singing.

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.