...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...

...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?...

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.

When women do better, economies do better.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

The Lord always grants more than what he has been asked: you ask him to remember you, and he brings you into his Kingdom!