Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.