The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

My expertise is running businesses.

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

I put so much energy into with improv. You can only perform it at a place where people are, essentially, taking improv classes so that they just appreciate what's happening.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.