Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

My last defense / Is the present tense.

To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.