The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?

You are who you choose to be.

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it

The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

If I had the authority to pick and choose who gets to know Christ as Savior, that would make me God. Thank the one true God that I am not.

For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!

Watchman what of the night?

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer.

I'm a MySpace person.