A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Every story is us

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains, drinking poison, and now quietly choosing annihilation.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

There is no time like the present.

Advice: Don’t wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you’re related to — gets shot before you work it out.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

The family is more sacred than the state.

Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.