...futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

...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?...

Personal development business is a business of lifetime.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Some politician some years ago said that bad officials are elected by good voters who do not vote.

I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.

I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.