Because to write, one must truly suffer.

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.

You've been dreaming lies again, Susana.

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr

The wisdom of that moment of pure emotion resonates with me still: that the dearest and most enduring moments of our lives are sometimes the quietest ones.

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

I'm all in favor of NATO.

How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?

What a joy Mary Jo Putney is to read; she can't write fast enough for me.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid