When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children./ Don't do your enemies' work for them./ Finish your own.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.