Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

We are most alive when we're in love.