"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."

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“If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it.”
“Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.”
“I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.”

Source : "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.
“I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.”

Source : The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2000.
“When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.”
“For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.”
“The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.”
“No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.”

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