...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...

...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?...

You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.

Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

I'm a rather decisive type.

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing.

The power of thought is extremely powerful.