...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...

...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?...

Only when you observe with the intent to understand you will discover the deeper truth.

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

I try to move people emotionally.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

Don't just live a life; build one.

Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.