How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

Just as there are primary colors from which all of the others come forth when they're combined, so there are primary vibratory qualities of energy and light within us.

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.