I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.