The expression of your heart is beating beneath your fears

As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being.

Ease happens when you have the feeling of what you want inside of you.

The more of me I be, The clearer I can see.

Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky

You four are a whole other breed.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

If you put me in South Park, that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead. I need to talk to him. I need to look at him.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.