...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

A smile is a sparkle of your soul and a glint of light from your heart.

If there is a construction or a pathway in the spirit to be made, it is the way of godliness.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.

Summon the strength of your capabilities —not just housed in the mind - but, empowered within the Soul.

I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.

In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.

Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.

No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.