...once I saw you in moonlight and I can tell you - the silvery dust of the stars doesn't shimmer like 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?...

I'm your other half. (...) I'll carry your heartbeat in mine.

This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

Photography is like an open book to the world.

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

Declare what you honestly want and live that vision fearlessly.

Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.