There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

We are created by being destroyed.

And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.

This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

You become what you think about most of the time.

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

We must plow through the whole of language.

Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.

The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.