Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

Divine punishment are also mercies.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

I am hunted by humans.

To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.