There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen

Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday tooEvery night is a night of fightingWith family and friends like you

I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead

Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention

We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart

Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?

Traveling down a road of self-destructionWith no room for any reconstruction

I remember all the things we said we'd doAnd how not a single thing we said was true

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.

Follow Your Dreams, Except the One Where You’re at School in Your Underwear

Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.

It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.

Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.

The key to the utilization of atomic energy for world peace will be found in the will of all people to restrict its use for the betterment of mankind.

When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.