Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

O starry night, This is how I want to die

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.

Reading renews the mind.

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

Determination and willingness can change the situation when we are distructed

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.