A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

The greatest of tragedies is a life lived without knowing its purpose. Discover your purpose and life will take on a new meaning.

A torch-light procession marching down your throat.

Mind is a captive of the body.

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

Commerce is the great civilizer.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.