There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Sometimes the rope seems the only option when at the bottom of the pit. Climb it to safety.

Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.