"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."

"A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day."