“The parched know --real thirstdraws rainwaterfrom an empty sky.”

“Poetry has an immediate effect on the mind. The simple act of reading poetry alters thought patterns and the shuttle of the breath. Poetry induces trance. Its words are chant. Its rhythms drumbeats. Its images become the icons of the inner eye. Poetry is more than a description of the sacred experience; it carries the experience itself.”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the “suspension of disbelief” and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.”

“He would spend the rest of his life worshipping her.”

“Cyn always liked watching women move,but there was nothing sexier than an angry woman moving with purpose.”

“Ma seule liberté est de rêver, alors je rêve de liberté”

“This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.”