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

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

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.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

Encourage anyone who is trying to improve mentally, physically, or spiritually.

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

My dream is to save women from nature.

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

All of us in all the Americas will be living at the point of a gun.

Together, we'd take crazy to a whole new level. ~Tod