...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...

...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?...

Inspiration awakens our creativity, enables us to do the impossible, and improves our mental efficiency. It fires up the soul.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

Somebody who should have been born is gone.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.