...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...

...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?...

The body cannot take chronic terror

You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.