...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming...

...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?...

Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices.

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to be the better me by forgetting my past.Master of Stupidity: If you just forget it, how would you measure you're better?

Sakaki: "...Why can't we just talk it over...?"Tomo: "You can't talk to cats.

The melody rolled over her, as cool and sweet as water, as hopeful and lovely as sunrise.

I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.

I never put out a vanilla edition of a DVD.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

I believe Jesus Christ came for everybody. I don't think he came for Christians. The Bible says take this good news to the whole world.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.