Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

Where love germinates, peace is harvested!

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'

I was fascinated by movies from age 12.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

If there is any trouble within your heart - be free, in the name of Jesus Christ