...what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

...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?...

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man, " he said. "There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

All models are wrong; some models are useful.