...when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...

...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?...

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

I don't want to brag, but I'm a pretty good driver.

The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.

It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.