i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.

I would do anything to stay beside you forever.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

...You deserve to be happy. What can I do?" Don't send me away, I thought. He looked at me again. "What do you want?" "I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.

It´s hard to have you with me but not to be able to take your hand or kiss you -James

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

... a nation without humor is not only sad but dangerous.

The victories are what I judge things on.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

I never listened to country music growing up.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

My mother. She's 65 now and she has immaculate style. And that's exactly what I want to be.

After twenty plus years of performing hundreds of shows a year, I prefer to try things out on stage rather than for friends. I don't see the benefit in that, really.