Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

Teach the student what needs to be taught. 'Cause black and white kids both take shorts When one doesn't know about the other one's culture, Ignorance swoops down like a vulture.

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.