Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.

She looked down at her bulging veins and she remembered the most important thing that she had forgotten – she was alive.

You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

Less thinking, more living.

A seed, in order to grow, must first be planted under the best conditions. Be that space or time. I think, therefore, that you have yet to find your perfect conditions.

You see, people are everywhere. They are everything. No matter who we are, or what we do, people are involved in our lives. If those people are poisonous, our lives will be poisonous also.

Time passes no matter what you do.

Beautiful things have been broken before…

The greatest person to know in life is yourself. There’s no one who will treat you better.

The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air.

They mislead the unwitting masses.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. “I don’t want to scare you.” “Too late.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.