"My dreams are pure rock 'n roll..."

"Words are different when they live inside of you."

"I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand."

"I think that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get."

"Another secret of the universe; Sometimes pain is like a storm that comes out of nowhere."

"The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."

"To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing."

"The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain."

"Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing."

"I wanted to tell them so many things and yet I didn't have the words."

"The problem with my life is that it was someone else's idea."

"But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry."

"Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful is that?"

"I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself."

"Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth."

"I don't always have to understand the people I love."

"I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing."

"I had learned to hide what I felt. No, that's not true. There was no learning involved. I had been born knowing how to hide what I felt."