People think needing a man is weak. I believe what is truly weak is not ALLOWING ourselves to surrender to our deepest desire to have a protective, strong, caring, masculine man in our life.

You don't need a reason to add value to somebody's life. Nor do you need to get anything back from them. You add value because it's who you are.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

Poetry is more than just art, it’s like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

You can only make magic if you act at the right time when the right conditions are in place

Be a leader who is driven by purpose but not by position or power.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

The bigger the show, the weirder it is.

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

I called Donald Trump a racist. Nobody that makes that charge is being intellectually honest, or else they're being intellectually lazy.

Family is the most important thing in my life, so I guess it's not surprise that I like to write about it.