None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse.

A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

We must depend on God’s grace for every good deed.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.

I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

The words 'God is love' conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. 'He who doesn't love [his neighbor] doesn't love God, for God is love.'