The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.