We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

I didn't get to be this smart by not being stupid

There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

There are two types of people in this world: Gypsy and Gadge. Which one am I? Neither. I'm a writer.

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.

The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?

Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.

People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart-the best brain.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

The greatest griefs are silent.