To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can go around saying they're all so violent, just throw them in jail, this is an underclass, what can you do? You can create fear. The issue of violence is very suitable for a repressive society. Then you can have more legislation, more police, more laws to fight crime, when all you need to do is to encourage people in a different way.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

To create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.