...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...

...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?...

In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.

Yes, light, there is no other word for it.

Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.

Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.