We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?