...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...

...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?...

I don't write stories, I write characters.

We all must decide: either we live our lives to fulfill a mission or make money.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.

You can never get someplace physically until you've been there mentally.