Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.

Make your dreams your goals, so that they are a part of you and not just a wish.

I have learned many things in this life:)

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause of liberation.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.