my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect

...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 ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...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...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

I don't go around every other day calling for governors to resign. I don't think I ever have.

I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

You're not supposed to be accepting trophies. You're supposed to be in the back being mad that people are getting trophies.