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.

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.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

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

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

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.

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

I put my hand on my chest. I can feel my heart beating. My heart is working. I'm pleased. I'm still alive.

Men, as an organization, are getting more women than any other group working anywhere in the world. Wherever women are, we have men looking into it.

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.

Best way to find the weakness of the enemy is to understand their ways.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

Simply unleashing our imaginations can be empowering.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.