At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

Anguish is the universal language.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ...

It's just me throwing myself at you, romance as usual, us times us, not lust but moxibustion, a substance burning closeto the body as possiblewithout risk of immolation.

All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.

That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

Onstage, it was always comfortable for me, because that's where I felt at home. Offstage, it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage.

It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.