I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.

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.

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

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.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

In order to get wealth, knowledge is needed.

–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

When I talk about secularism, I'm talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq today are adamantly against federalism.

We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.