Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

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.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.

My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.