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

...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...

...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?...

...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

This is an era of violent peace.

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

Called or not, God is always there.

But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.