I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

The fear of God is an insane idea. God is love and “there is no fear in love, because perfect love casts out all fear.

Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.

The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I don't really wear lip gloss often, but I do like to wear a dab of lipstick. I put a dab on my lip and mix it with some of my chapstick, and people think it's my natural color!

The music has generated all the techniques I use.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

Whether we like it or not we are consideably bound to Europe.