It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

I wanted to be a writer since I was in high school, but I never thought it was possible.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.