I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.