Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

Survival is a four letter word.

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

I see you exhausted by poisonous flies

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.