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

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

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.

Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

I was not making enough time to take care of me.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard