maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I can see time, " whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.

With your own hands you can achieve much

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

It feels good to give back to the people who support you.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

Use those brains that God put in your head.

The left want to get rid of all opposition. They don't want to debate the opposition. They don't want to argue. They just don't want there to be any.