Elizabeth Bishop

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

It's going to be a rule, I think, for wearing a crash hat, and I actually fractured my skull through not wearing a hat. I was so lucky to escape from that, and now, it's something I always do.