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

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.

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.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.

I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him, when he will long to hurt like that again.

Failure is successful when you fail.

But when you're in second grade, you don't yet know the meaning of impossible

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.