My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.

We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

The extreme always makes an impression.

To have enough of enough is always enough.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

The more you read, the more you calm down.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.