No matter where I go - London Beirut Jerusalem Washington Beijing or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better not pull them apart.

I was looking for something like baseball where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I heard Nirvana and discovered that songs could be like poetry but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

A poem in form still has to have voice gesture a sense of discovery a metaphoric connection as any poetry does.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement and Freud and Jung and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.