Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

Hell is the inability to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

Adrian Mitchell

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote

Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

John Cale

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Wendell Phillips

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

Vincent Gallo

Describe plum-blossoms?Better than my verses...whiteWordless Butterflies

Reikan

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

George Mason

The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.

C. Wright Mills

You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

To fill the hour-that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson