...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

...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?...

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.

Attitude distinguishes between a winner and a loser.

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear - and it obviously was - I decided I liked her immediately.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

Self-realization is not complete until it lives in action.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.

Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.

The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.