Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

I couldn't see passion as a bad thing.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.