Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

I feel the healinghands of Godtouch my heartand kiss my soul.

Sometimes thatwhich we fearstrengthens ourspirit and givesus a splashof hope.

Sometimes memory is the only gift we give ourselves and the only hope we have of finding our way home.

Hope is a gift. Use it wisely.

We fear what we most desire.

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.

Every child is born as a free human being.

I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

He's easily the most well-adjusted former child star in the room, please welcome... Jason Bateman.

Go where the money is... and go there often.