The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.