How do I learn to speakwhen silence is all I know?

Foggy nights bring some comfort.He can get lost in the mistand there is no one to stare or question.

But the walls of my resolvemortared with stubbornnesshave been breached by circumstancesI cannot handle alone.

Let me live my final days whole.Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.

I am lost in my world, invisible - unknown.Moon please lend meyour light that someonewill me see me.

If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast, my breath raspy, my skin to burn.

I am a butterfly poetbirthed from painflying with the freedomof my verses.

I didn't know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave.

...I got to chase my dream for a while, see what it's like, but this—" He stood and swept his arms wide. "This, and my family, is worth any price.

Once upon a time...long ago in a far-off place that everyone knows is not here or now or us.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape.

Heaven is for those who think of it.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment

Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.