Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.