I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.