Im always terrified when Im writing.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man

If love is a flame, I am an inferno...

I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

I'm always nervous before a job! I always think I'm going to be fired, I always think I can't do it. I always think I'm going to disappoint somebody, myself included.

I like men to be men and I like them to care about me and to take care of me. I'm willing to let them do that.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.