It was as if someone had leftthe bird thereas a kind of telegramof feathers, oily feathersthat looked like they’d struggled, shuttered a little before letting gointo flightforever.

There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage.

...we’re not even really hiking, more like meandering in cinematic light.

...you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all.

Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?

Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.

Dear Anonymous, I've got a secret I know you can keep it because you don't really exist....This is what shapes you, this is what makes you as authentic as you are fake.

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

The people living darkness has seen a bright light.

Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.

On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.