Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

Love is the mortar that holds the human structure together.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.

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