"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

“Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.”

“Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor. In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . . But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.”

“I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.”

Source : "May Richard Parker be always at your side". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2002.

“It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.”

Source : "Ask the Teachers" by Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

“I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.”

“I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel like working with smaller units feels more natural to the way I write poems.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.”