This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it.

I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.

We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.

You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

You can accomplish His will, without stopping midway, and even though you may face obstacles, you will overcome

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction.

ThatNeed to knowYour enemyTo surviveIs bitter.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

The only thing that holds back from your success is fear of the unknown

I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.