...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

...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?...

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Do you have any idea how rare a twenty-three-year-old virgin is where I come from?

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters

We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

I like to do projects I feel some connection to.

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.