I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

The fact that I seem to prefer seals over any other animal brides is something I hadn't actually realized until this moment. Perhaps it's because there's a lot of very cool folklore about it.

Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.

His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.

I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.

We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.

Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.