Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.
Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.
The first half [of Valley of Violence] was to endear you to all these people and give you all these archetypes that you're familiar with, and then the second half, just to see all those archetypes unravel like real people.
One of my favorite things about my job is getting to hang around with people who really know what they're talking about.
I never wear makeup when I'm not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I've grown to really love the way I look without it.