put out the candles with your fire—I’m on fire

...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...

The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.

You never get tired of looking at the stars

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.

While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love.

Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.

The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.