My mother was an exuberant, silly lady.
Such as we are made of, such we be.
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
The child is the father of the man.
I work differently than most people.
Work is what saves you.
We work to become, not to acquire.
I like taking the subway to work.
There are elements of irony in my work, of course.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.
I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.
We've gotten probably 40 women who have offered to be surrogates.
A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Police do not belong in war zones.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
