you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

...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...

What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

WE CONTINUE TO DWELL AMONG THE LIVING AFTER WE DIE. WE LIVE ON IN MINDS, HEARTS AND LIPS.

Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.

You are better off being homeless than being me.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.