Even the most ill-formed words, set to paper, are a great blessing.

If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren't all that fundamental.

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.

Finding meaning in the moment is what gives those meanings a value worth remembering.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

Least he's committed," I offered. "Or needs to be.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement.