When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven.

...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night.

Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.

There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.