This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

My children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at.

The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference.

When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.