The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.