...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

...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?...

No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

In marriage, you must have trust and love

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.