There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.

It's a good thing babies don't give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

He was golden and beautiful as a sunset.