If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

We need much less than we think we need.