“The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there...”

“I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket.Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the ...”

“you will never catch up.Walk around feeling like a leafknow you could tumble at any second.Then decide what to do with your time.--The Art of Disappearing”

“Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.”

“Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.”

“We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.”