But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..

When the intensity it takes to extricate one from a negative state is equal to or greater than the intensity that perpetuated the state, then the person can be freed of that state

smile..smile..and smile. i mean- just smile, and everything else will follow.

It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes.

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

Oakmont possesses all the charm of a sock to the head.

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.