...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...

...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 know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

This was really what I was supposed to be doing, and it was a great blessing to have discovered this, and to be doing what was God's will for your life.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

I've always liked the fact that galleries are free to visit in New York.

Loving is a laborious and complex business.

I'm pretty good with languages.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.