When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.