I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.

Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

There are things better left untouched by words.

Never fear Love's absence in your life, because it already exists within you, in great abundance.

A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?