...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

...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?...

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

Guide valiantly.Guide venerably.Guide valiantly.Guide virtuously.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.