...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

...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?...

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

Well, I don't like yoga. I've got a thousand things to do.

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.