I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

That the stars are adamant everyone understands— but I won’t give up seeking joy on each blue wave or peace below every gray stone.

Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.

Ripe summer's sweetness drippedin pearls from every treeand into my opened hearta little drop ran down.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.

Everything is acceptable until we stop accepting them.

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

The book Love and Trouble is asserting that sexuality lives inside us, and in the culture, and in the people who do things to us - and the forms reflect that.

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

I believe in God. He is the secret of my success. He gives people talent.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.