I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

Forgiveness has to be repeated, the bible says seventy times seven.

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do.

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.

There is no border in my films. You can see yourself in these stories. This is the greatest thing about the power of cinema. It's very present. It's all there. You can't escape it.

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.