Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

It is The Action That We are Taking NOWThat will Determine our FUTURE Lives

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies

I wish that I could wake up with amnesia and forget about those stupid little things.

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

One doesn’t question a miracle.