Being poet is my choicesless choice.

Marriage is situational but love is accidental.

A poet is born in the present, lives in the past and thinks in the future.

Poetry is the habit of making a drop of light in the darkness.

Poetry lit fire in the vast forest of memories within you.

What is poetry? Only the poetry can answer this!

Being poet is my choiceless choice.

I'm a poet and It's my choiceless choice.

What is poetry? The person who answers it, can't be a poet!

Life is all about exploring yourself.

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.