And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Don’t give up on trying everyday

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.

There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.