You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

Leave no path untaken.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

I couldn’t help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I’d had it off and on my entire life.

I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included, Julie, who choose poetry as their vocation. I envy your faith.

To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

Where you start is not as important as where you finish.