The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.