And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

God is my Sovereign Lord.

The real success is experiencing the bitters of life rather more than sweets.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

You can't just be in one thing and be comfortable in that one thing. You have to understand multiple things and how they all connect.

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.