The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes..

The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the ch….

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

I must have true love or nothing..

We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare sm….

I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know w….

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart..

I've never tried to be something I'm not..

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present..

Travel definitely affects me as a writer..

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there..

Always sing below your potential..

January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow..

Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so….

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them..

Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming off his best [offensive] seas….

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly..

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you..

It is not customary to love what one has..

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans..

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eye….