Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.

Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

She had never known that ice could take on so many shades of blue: sharp lines of indigo like the deepest sea, aquamarine shadows, even the glint of blue-green where the sun struck just so.

When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

I work a lot in the summers. My family goes to Maine, where we have a little house. My wife's a writer, too, and we can write for six hours a day and then play with the kids.

I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.