“Fear is the vehicle in which love can do its worst.”

“I dont need the facts. Im a Pisces.”

“I talk about writing and write so much because aside from music, its the only thing giving me peace and reason and purpose. Everyone is looking for answers but I dont have them and Im not the answe...”

“But now that Im scrubbingtoilets on my hands & knees,with four degrees,I realize that one escape routeleads to another”

“Theres a universalunderstanding betweenmen of the silent sorrowa man endures whenhe loses a woman heloves”

“and tonight we held each other, one last time,like a dance to aslow songon an empty floor, underneath a singledisco ballin front of no oneat all”

“Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.”

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."..."But they used to take ...”

“Happiness is my drug of choice.”

“Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now, so that t...”

“As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.”

“Families share relationships based not only blood, but also the unique affiliation of a terribly long cord when measured in comparison with any other undertaking in a persons life, from cradle to t...”

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to...”

“Peace is more of an internal settlement in Nigeria rather than what is visible on the external hardship we face in the country.”

“May find hope you every hardship.”