Start small and with your own money..

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A..

Success comes from what you do, not from what you say you are going to do..

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry..

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?.

The public be damned..

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not..

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God..

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional..

I'll tell you what can make bacon better... nothing..

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?.

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet ….

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work..

Everything in life has its price..

Whatsoever is, is in God..

Our senses are always part of the process..

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward ….

I intend to be me. Whatever that is..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

Anything we put on screen has gone through massive changes. That's always part of the process..

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things..