It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.

Most people confuse wishing and wanting with pursuing. You must place your trust in action.

Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

No sense being pessimistic. Wouldn't work anyway.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.

Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Pink makes me smile.Pink makes me laugh.Pink makes me love her.Pink makes it all worthwhile.

I would rather walk alone in the light than with many in the dark doom.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

A guy should make the woman he is dating feel different and more special than anyone else in his life

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

My biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people.