...in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain...

...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?...

Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.

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It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Children should be seen and not heard.

I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish.