Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

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

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.