One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.

A story is a wondrous invention.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

No matter what is your name, gender, race and nationality, you too are fully capable in turning your dreams into realities.

We all want to ‘count for something’–to make a difference. And, accountability helps us get where want to go in terms of achieving our goals and fulfilling our responsibilities.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

Governments don't control people like they used to.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

I loved you and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me.