I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?

The music is in minors.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

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