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

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.

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.

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float?

We are what we.

It is hard to begin and harder to finish.

We all belong to the holiness of our eternal soul.

Walking with Murphythrough the bone-freezing chilltoward the bus stop, I start shivering.And somehow, when he slips his arm around meto warm me up, it feels right.Righter than anything ever has.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

I love constructive criticism. I love getting notes when I'm acting. I love them telling me what to do. I don't always agree with it, but I really need it.

I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.