One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.
I went from working with Will Smith to working with Will Smith's wife. So the Smiths have been very good to me.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.