People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Music has no limits of a life-span.