So many FREAKS and not enough CIRCUSES!

Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.

When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

There's no such thing as an open draw. At least for me - I mean, obviously for Roger Federer, I think every draw feels open for him - but for me there's no such thing as an open draw

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

There's no right one way to go through life.

Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .