Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.

When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us with the tools of discursive thought ... An artist does it differently ... their primary approach is different, even though both groups, if you will, are investigating the actual, the ideal, and the discrepancy in between.

Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked me off my feet.

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

Love doesn't need a reason. Hate needs a reason.