We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.

Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.