You are the ocean to my eyes.

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.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.