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

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

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.

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

Most jokes come from good intentions—and most mistakes, too.

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

I'm just a demon that means well. Freelance for God, but do the work of Satan.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Hell will freeze over before I send you any money for this unwarranted bill.

Galen recognized, with some considerable puzzlement it seems, that Christians exhibited the virtues that he associated with the discipline of philosophy.

I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.

Of course, any job is scary, but you tackle the challenges head on and hope for the best.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.