I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

The secret of living is to find a pivot the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?

When my soul steps to exit this frame, I will be reincarnated as rain.

And here is our girl, looking-- If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.

I don't really know [who my favorite vampire is]. I always think, 'Ethan Hawke in Interview with a Vampire,' and someone will say, 'He's not the vampire. He's the interviewer.'

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.