It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Insecurity is disconnecting from what inspires you and taking on board an external point of reference.

Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice.

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy"Percy... Chiron's collection!

the soul mate doesn’t have tobe a romantic relationship.Sometimes in life, you meetpeople when you need them, and there is an immediateconnection.

I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

A Temple is one of the best ways of benefiting other living beings - it is the best form of public service.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.