A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

She looked over at him, her eyes warm. “Your face has a story to tell.” Mouth quirking, Roan growled, “It’s a top-secret face, Darlin’.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.