Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.