Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Whatever's between us is that kind of new.

Web of time

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it

It was a perfect marrige. She didn't want to and he couldn't

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.