On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.

Staying in with you is better than sticking things up my nose.

I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

My father always said, 'It ain't bragging if it's true.'

I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it.