Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.

Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

At the end of the world, music always played on like a bad movie.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

In the darkness and the snow, the street is emptyand it is just the night, the ice and me.

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

It's too easy to be myself with you.

There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.