I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

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

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

Scratch a “libertarian” these days, and you will find...a leftist.

In the same way that the best lies have an element of truth, maybe evil is made all the more powerful when it is accompanied by the startling presence of grace.

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

My mother had an amazing life, and she's someone to admire.

Dyson's Law: Do ask; don't lie.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

The key factor in my strategy is longevity.