...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...

...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?...

...nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.