Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

It's the oasis, " said the camel driver."Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked."Because we have to sleep.

Better would be good. Because if she felt a little less like she’d been run over by a truck, she could jump on Dr. Hottie.

After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

You wear clothes so beautifully!

I'm not really into rap.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are.

Everything is a work-in-progress.