...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...

...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 very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

A person who wields power cannot see truth

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.