Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.

I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.

I only want to walk a little longer in the cold blessing of the rain, and lift my face to it.

Love me like a wrong turn on a bad roadlate at night.

Without knowledge, we are weak.

Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.

I got the famous Oprah hug!

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

Don’t think I’m going off to find myself though. I already know who I am.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.