The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

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.

The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

This is a problem that Islam has. I called upon Muslim leaders to call out and denounce these murders, these terrorists. Decrying violence isn't enough.

Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

It is by God’s mercy that we are saved. May we never tire of spreading this joyful message to the world.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.