Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.— Rhett

If not for tragedy, tyrants, and injustice, there would be nothing to awaken and inspire dormant heroes. There is always a balance. Always.

You don't think your way back to joy

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.