...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

To step into God’s will is a step into a different realm, even though your feet remain on firma terra.

The bliss of love is wonder.

If one more person tells me how big this country is, I’m going to go kick a koala.

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

Don't waste time. If you love someone tell them because sooner or later someone else is going to.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

I am going to die. But I am going to die in peace because I lived my life as intensely as I could.

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.