My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

Film as a medium has a power that sports like wrestling lack.

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.

Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.

I get so full off of stories that people send in of encouragement.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.

Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?