I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.