...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...

...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 wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result.

I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.