...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

The absence of unconditional self-love has led many people to sell themselves cheap.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

I'm going for something very raw and organic.

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.

I studied with the idea of becoming a Catholic priest.

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.