To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.