I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that’s where my desire for you is sending me

...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 ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...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...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

I started skateboarding when I was 12, and I broke my leg when I was 19 so... seven years.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

What once made you safe now drives you insane.

There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.