...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Every company, of course, teaches you so much humanly and professionally [about] yourself and your creative process.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise.

Britain deserves better than people who say they've got a quick fix but won't tell you what it actually means for Britain, we need a much bigger conversation than this.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.