I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.