In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

When we have reached the depths of despair, only then can we look up and see the light of hope.

Love is sensual and celestial.

A book is a good substitute for a man. Fiction, preferably

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

Oh, gah, I’ve been slimed. (Jericho) It’s not slime. It’s a baby kiss. (Delphine) It's slime. (Zarek)