He is holding a book.Inside the book is the Universe.

To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.

You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

It was a cheesy cheeseball, covered with Cheez Whiz and served on a bed of Cheez-Its. With a side of queso.

Youth without faith is a day without sun.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.

I just encourage everyone to make real music and it will fuel the engine and the machine. Just make it real and put your heart into it. Don't make it because you heard someone on the radio.