In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

The individual who fears the criticism of others is no different from the one who seeks their praise. Both are shadow figures, fading into the landscape, lacking the will to act for themselves.

Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.

For happiness, love is your only choice.

Friends tell the truth to one another. Friends don't slam the door to correction or reflection when it is offered with affection.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.

Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually.

If I could go back I wouldn't change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn't have ever tired to do anything different. I would have never become happy.