To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

But war had a taming effect

What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.

He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.

Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?

You have been the pillowI lay my weary soul upon

Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality.

I had a crush Florence Henderson when I was younger, i would love to meet Marcia but I would prefer mom.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.