The strongest presence is so often an absence.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

To love is to open the window of your heart for all of the beauty of the world to come in and dance with the joy in your soul.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

My Life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.

The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.