...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

...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?...

There are only three things which increase when shared: love, wisdom and happiness.

Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.

There is no danger than doubt.

Just in case you’re wondering, ” Gage says, breaking the silence, “this alliance of ours doesn’t mean I like you.”“Feeling’s mutual.” Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.