My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.

Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go.

all girls are beautiful in their own way

My hair walks into a room before I do.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.