Short fiction is the medium I love the most because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that though lacking a novel's length satisfies the reader.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

We must think differently look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts new definitions.

A peace deal requires agreements and you don't make agreements with your friends you make agreements with your enemies.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity fully fledged mutual acceptance full-blown mutual flourishing and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction personal adoration and moral admiration that is hard to find.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Nature who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues inspires now this impulse now that one in accordance with what she requires.

What nature requires is obtainable and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

In general mankind since the improvement of cookery eats twice as much as nature requires.