Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Sometimes you just need the comforts of home, the familiarity of your own family bed and only the pampering a mother can do.

The joy you feel when you become a small life particle sun and share its brightness and warmth with those around you is indescribably great.

It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.

Obama is huge in the polls these days. His popularity is soaring. Even conservatives are coming around. 30 percent of them now believe Obama deserves a Green Card.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I wanted to be consistent with my exercise, so I committed to working out for 30 days in a row, no matter what.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

I'm the same boy I used to be.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.