When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.

The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.

even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.

some winterswill never meltsome summerswill never freezeand some things will only... live in poems.

...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.

To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.

the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.

lean in to kiss mein all the placeswhere the acheis the most special.

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

there are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitionersof them

There is no human-like god. If there were, he'd be as silly as you.

I wanted my home to be a haven, like coming in from the cold to a big warm hug.

No, never regret destroying something written. Some things are best left hidden, especially if they can seriously hurt someone if they are found.

If I didn't smell so good would you still hug me?

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

To a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?