Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.

You must find the passion, an unrelenting passion.

Action is the ink that writes what you think on the pages of life!

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.

Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

I do like to dress up. I am shapely, everything about me is real and I can rap.

Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.