I'm going to help the committee regardless of any position I have. I will volunteer to be a summer intern.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
Every moment of life is the last, every poem is a death poem.
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.
Do what you're doing while you're doing it.
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.