A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

If you love somebody, tell them.

choose your words well(be honest, be true)butabove all else, be kind

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

Time is our present breath.

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

Cherish your health, family, friends, and vocation for none of these things are permanent.

Asking questions is one of the best ways to grow as a human being.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.