I wake up and look at that bridge, try to count the red taillights I see heading east every morning, a kind of rosary as I pray for another crisis to dwarf the one defining us right now.

Love ignites spiritual fire in the soul.

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.