Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

There are things better left untouched by words.

Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

The soul paints itself in our machines.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.