"One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better."

"Poetry was a meeting of mind and heart, I felt at one with poetry itself. I like the concentrated language,…"

"was small, ugly and obsessed by physical beauty in others, and he spent most of his time in salons and oper…"

"While individuals must take responsibility for their spending, they are entitled to protections from outrag…"

"As a writer, I must keep writing, poems can never be forced, the muses will not be raped, so I feel this ki…"

"Compassion is something individual and voluntary. You cannot compel somebody to be compassionate; nor can y…"

"Having seen that I was not capable of using all my resources in political action, I returned to my literary…"