I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.

Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out honestly.

Jump start my kaleidoscope heart, Love to watch the colors fade, They may not make sense, But they sure as hell made me.

True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

Show me how big your brave is.

Late night writing is also good, too, but in New York, you've got neighbors. I try to be a good neighbor.

Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.

I'm happy to be working with all women.

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth?

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.