...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.

To get something different, you must do something different.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.