"Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poe…"

"The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain."

"I'm just a red nigger who love the sea, I had a sound colonial education, I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me, an…"

"You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the str…"

"Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life."

"Then silence is sawn in half by a dragonfly as eels sign their names along the bottom-sand when the sunrise brightens…"

"No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, … and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a…"

"Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic."

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the l…"

"I never thought I would see the day when America (which is based on the idea of liberty, from which the world Liberal…"