“A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.”

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.

It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.

When I put something into motion

Life is at its best when love, money, and creativity are growing in harmony.

the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.