The only way we know we love ourselves and the people in our life is by the agreements we are willing to make and keep

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life.

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political.

[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.