I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Flesh, blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.

Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

The GNU GPL was not designed to be "open source".

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.