...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

I mean, shout out to the people that get dressed everyday and want to take that picture everyday. I would much rather post pictures of [my girlfriend] than of myself.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

A man's tie should never be louder than his wife.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

Ignorance is brought about by assumption.