Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Mistakes aren’t mistakes they are lessons!

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Hillary Clinton has experience, but it's bad experience.

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.