"I made a hurtful and thoughtless comment on Sunday when I said that "I wanted my life back." When I read that recently, I was appalled. I apologize, especially to the families of the 11 men who lost their lives in this tragic accident."

"Not all words ... submit equally to this appropriation, to this seizure and transformation into private pro…"

"From the poet's viewpoint a lyric is a poem which embodies a single or simple emotional attitude that expre…"

"The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of …"

"A novelist has to enter deeper exile still. In most outward ways the experience was depressive, as many you…"

"It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something…"

"You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back …"