Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

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.

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.

Abuse can take many forms. It always involves a boundary violation, although every boundary violation is not necessarily abuse.

We have as much time as we need.

Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.