The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

On a good day I write, all day.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

... reason andlove keep little company together now-a-days...

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it doesn't matter whose name is on the cover, you're not even thinking about it.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly.