A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder.

Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

Close your eyes and look inside, A mirror shines within; To find where you are going, First see where you have been.

Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

Every bowling center should have a house pro.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

Palestine has a very strong nonviolent movement.

We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.