Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

I have the backbone of an eel.

I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.

There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.

I know that some people think differently about pilots, but I really enjoyed shooting Awakening.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.