"I want to yell about it most days and stop strangers in the street to share my outrage. But my mind is too serpentine to offer instant poem reactions. I can however stand back and examine the deeper ground, or at least that's what I hope my poems are doing. I believe contemplation can be an ethical act and literature can be a profound agent of cultural change, so I hope in some way my poems expand the conversations about environmental decline and social responsibility."

“Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.”

“Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.”

“May today be a happy memory, tomorrow a bright new promise. Happy Birthday”

“Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.”

“If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.”

“However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.85, Anza Publishing

“I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.”

“However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers.”

Source : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.