Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
Since Jesus was human then he most assuredly farted and burped. And if God did create us in God's image then God must fart and burp as well.
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.
My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.
Colin [Farrell] I talked to several times on the phone, and I said, remember, we have only twenty-five days of doing the movie [Miss Julie], so you must know some of your text. I was a little un-feminist, I didn't want to say [bossy voice] "learn your text!" But when he came, he knew all his text.
And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.