Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Who knows if you’re alive anymore, but better yet, who knows if I’m even alive anymore?

That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.

I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

Anything is possible if you get off your 'BUT' and STAND!