...I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...

...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?...

To be an educator, teach and keep learning.

Whatever is supposed to make you rich is well within your reach

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.