School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

The future is in good hands.

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.