"I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence."

“I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.”

Source : Interview with Karla Huston, www.smartishpace.com. 2004.

“Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.”

Source : Song: Ghosts, Album: The Innocent Age, 1981

“Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. People could always change and always hurt you. Of course it went in the other direction too, you could hurt them when you didn't intend it and that too was out of your control.”

Source : Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.195, Vintage

“When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.”

“Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.”

“The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."”

Source : "From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side" by Alison King, published in "College Teaching", Volume 41, No. 1 (pp. 30-35), www.jstor.org. Winter 1993.

“The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation.”

“Pizza is a circle. Pizza is my life. Pizza is the circle of life,”