I give people If You Came Softly when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.
Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?
The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.
However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.
A man is always better than he thinks.
How you ask for help is secondary to the fact that you ask for help. Some people say, "I am going to command God for help. " Some people say, "I want to affirm that God help. " Other people prefer prayers of supplication, in which they implore, "Please, God, help me. " It all works. It doesn't matter whether you say the prayer out loud, think it, yell it, scream it, write it, sing it - it's all the same.
Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.