...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...

...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 feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

A valid answer comes when the question is lived.

We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

People call it Valentines Day, I call it Tuesday.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.