Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Sleeping is not a loss of consciousness, but it is a temporary loss of integration of awareness.

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

Never stop forgiving.

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.