If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

I love you. Let's get this over with.

I just tell people to listen to your heart. Anything is possible if you are doing something you love.

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.

If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

No one else can think or feel for you .. it's YOU .. ONLY YOU.

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.