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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."

"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish."

"Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them."

"You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it."

"Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be."

"Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over."
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"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."


"In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things."


"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."


"I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on."


"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."


"My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends."


"It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded."


"If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer."
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