I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

I don't really need bulk, just strength. I can get strong without putting on weight.

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

I was hitchhiking the other day and a hearse stopped. I said, 'No thanks, I'm not going that far.

I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.