What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.