I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.