Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.