Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly.

My Personalityunfolding before youlike a Swiss Army knife.

Impatience kills quickly.

Lineation can make your break your poems.

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. -Hestia

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Through awareness, you get a certain attitude. That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way.

I can't handle my own voice, even hearing it echoing on a cell phone. It's horrible.

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

Food should be a love offering.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.