...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...

...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 ...

...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...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

I’d rather straighten my pubes with a flat iron than go on another blind date.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

Vegemite is pretty good if you've got the right spread of butter and you spread your Vegemite light. Sometimes people spread it too thick and it's not the right consistency for it to be what it is.

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

I certainly have warm relationships with people, but you choose the people you have those relationships with. There are some people I don't bother with.

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

language is never neutral

Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.