We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .

I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.

Elders in the dark see better than children in the light.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

Love knows no difference between life and death The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away

We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.