You have to have been in love to write poetry.

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.

I guess my writing has changed as my life has.

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?