...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...

...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?...

Everyting is as it should be. So am I.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

I'm a little young for retirement.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Why didn't I just throw my money out of the window - and light it on fire?

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