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.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

I love your silences, they are like mine.

I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.