A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth...

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.

To see the beautiful and mystical in the other worlds, one first must see the beauty of one's soul

When you are non-judgmental, you are happy. Happiness depends on you, on your thoughts, on your attitude, on your ideas and vision, and nothing else.

A fire only spreads away from it's source, it never returns.

This nation under God

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others