...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...

...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 ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...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...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Don't be reckless. Don't play it safe.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.

I want to do a good job. I'm just learning and I just want to have fun with it.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

Anyone who thinks it’s funny to name their network "Tom’sHugeEtc" is going to think it’s funny that one of his neighbors is also named Tom and is embarrassed by it.

I don't want people to be suicidal. I want them to be energized and angry.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.