He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. – Richard Wright
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And thats usually what I focus on. – Don Henley