...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

...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?...

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

You’ll never get it if you can’t see yourself having it.

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.