...goodness is not the absence of evil - it's the light that pushes back the darkness...

...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?...

Though [Jesus’] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

I want to be crazy forever, even when I'm 80

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.