...I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...

...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?...

The answer to most prayers is no.

It is only an error in judgement to make a mistake but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.

It feels so good to laugh at myself. I'd probably cry my eyes out if I didn't.

The No.1 thing people can do to increase their wealth is to start a part-time business.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

I get so excited when my daughter says something new, which she is doing every day. I can leave the house for a few hours, come back and meet a totally different person. That's very exciting to me.