All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.

You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.

Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.

Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don’t, well darlin’ that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray.

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

I am not important. If I take a break, no one dies. And this is A Good Thing.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.