...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...

...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?...

Search for contentment in each person you meet.

An idea of awakening is not awakening. It’s simply an idea. It’s not the real thing. The real thing happens in our lives.

Fundamentals are the building blocks of fun.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

I have cellulite. So what?

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.