when I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud

...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...

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

As if it wouldn’t rain without you...

Custom that unwritten law By which the people keep even kings in awe.

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

It's really fun and just to be with a friend while you're working really hard. It can sometimes be really stressful. Also it's just fun to have someone to laugh with and have a good time with.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.