Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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.
The basis of art is change in the universe.
There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.