...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...

...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?...

Everything's urgent to a Democrat.

When you involved in an accident and someone asks "are you alright?" Yes fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off.

Is global warming new? I don't know. When I was young I remember the sun being hot.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Well, doctor, and do I now act like a 'pink powder puff' ?

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.