I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.

Your absence has gone through me

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.

You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.

I'm happy doing different things. Being in a band is great, but being in a band can be difficult sometimes.

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is more important than the highest parentage.