How lucky I am to lose sleep over such a work of art.

Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you.

Allow the fear to keep you sensible but not to keep you still. If you're afraid of the dark then open your eyes, see that you are home.

Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.

In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.

Sometimes my helpless blood runs numb and, if only for a second, I forget how frail bones can be.

Dissociated, I follow this body in its reckless haste.

Leave the hush to those who love like apes because together, you and I make vulgar sounds like a fervent sojourn in paradise.

Doubt quit stopping by when I started staying out late, dancing in a flood of self assurance discovered when holding your hand.

I am foolish in the way distance makes me feel partial.

Even lungs that are gasping are lungs that are trying.

As a question is created, it creates.

...love comes from the head and not the heart. Of the entire body, only the head matters.

I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses.

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

So if I believe in God, and I do, it's because I think I'm God.

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.