Carl von Clausewitz

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

I am a big one for subtlety and empathy. My dad was softly spoken and didn't carry his honours and accomplishments for everyone to see.