Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

You are thirst and thirst is all I know

But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.

Whatever you think again and again affects your feelings and is impressed upon subconscious mind and becomes a part of your personality.

She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He’s a religion for non-believers.

Complaining is a complete waste of one's energy. Those who complain the most accomplish the least.

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Everyone accepts that there are inevitably little areas of secrecy reserved for specialists; as regards things in general, many believe they are in on the secret.

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.

Positive thinking breeds success.