Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

he placed his handson my mindbefore reachingfor my waistmy hipsor my lipshe didn't call mebeautiful firsthe called meexquisite - how he touches me

stayi whisperedas youshut the door behind you

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you-the difference

despite knowingthey won’t be here for longthey still choose to livetheir brightest lives- sunflowers

a lot of timeswe are angry at other peoplefor not doing whatwe should have done for ourselves- responsibility

I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you

isn't it such a tragic thing when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't

i am not a hotel room. i am homei am not the whiskey you wanti am the water you needdon't come here with expectationsand try to make a vacation out of me

i am watersoft enoughto offer lifetough enoughto drown it away

for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere

Remember that you are never alone—you are always with yourself.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way

New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.

Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.