...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

...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?...

A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.

But all them things exist, " said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

I've always stood up for country music.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.