As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them.

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.

Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.

Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.

We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.

What are you doing son, you're gonna drive yourself insane. You'll never find the sunshine, when you're following the rain.

New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.