...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?...

...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?...

...just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.

The inclusion of dreams is the only viable supplement to the absence of more favourable outcomes.

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

The HoneyLine is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.

When we kicked off and no one came to mark me I thought, 'Hello, it's Christmas.'

One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.