In the baby’s roomThe city lights areMilkyIn the curtains… Breath Gentle as rain, Sleep Quiet as snowflakes

...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...

The life of the law has not been logic

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, He gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be.

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad.