The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

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.

You can't just call the Praetor. It's not like 1-800-WEREWOLF.

Misogyny or misandry is not a status or a belief

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

My day-to-day local issues are rooted in an underlying fear of death.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious.

I'm a true believer in not forcing anything. I hate forced art, forced anything.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.