For all that my co-workers put such stock in not being a transfer, we had a definite edge in one area. As a human, you were born knowing that you were going to die.

I was going down and hard. There are a few things in life that suck really badly. Loving someone who doesn't love you back is one of them.

The sizzle I felt being near him was so intense, but I couldn't figure out if they were fireworks or warning flares.

We weren't a couple, but friends didn't spoon every night. Fate and I were officially in relationship-no-man's-land.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

But I see how he watches the stars, And he talks to people just because, And gee, it would be nice to have a friend."From "Fated" in BREATHE IN

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice. And sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right timeor never.

When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?