The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer.

Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.

The burning off and the gathering together are one.

As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.

The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?

Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.

Sometimes you gotta say what's in your heart... And you have to stand for what you believe. No matter what." ~'Dr. Michael C. Anders,

Adele, if you think that, no matter how mad you drive me, that I want to give you up, you are insane, possibly more insane than is healthy.

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

One day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.

All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.