One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.

Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

Haven't you ever noticed how highways always get beautiful near the state capital?

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

Our daily gratitude shapes our everyday attitude.

I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim, My darkness is composed of him.

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.

I'maa tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Oh, you a E head, oh, you a weed head I got a big gun, bigger than Maxi Priest dread

I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart

Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.

I know most people always thank people for believing in them - I actually want to thank people that didn't believe in me.