Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Today will die tomorrow.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

The world is Absolutely Brilliant. Difficult sometimes. Confusing often. But humorous almost always.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.

My mom's been married three times; my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

I wonder if in 2050 there will be a movie called, 'Dude, Where's My Spaceship'