In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.

The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.