our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us

...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...

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

You don't have to live with whatever life throws you--or whatever you've gotten yourself into...You can choose to Change Your Story!

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us.

It's not how long; it's how strong.

What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.