Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Nonjudgmental love never hurt you.Judgmental love always does.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more.

I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.

If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships