Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

With regards any type of manifesting, when you are inspired or not inspired, you created it!

Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They're ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They're winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end.

Don't ever apologize for us.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.