We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Poetry is a hook for memory

When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires

I think everyone would love to see Jeff Gordon lose or get run into the wall, but I think he uses that - similar to me.

I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.

You can't eat compliments.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Yeah,” said Iggy. “But what now? Let’s do something fun.” I guess being on the run from bloodthirsty Erasers and insane scientists wasn’t enough fun for him. Kids today are so spoiled.

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

We only really know what is new, what suddenly introduces to our sensibility a change of tone which strikes us, that for which habit has not yet substituted its pale fac-similes.