I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

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.

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

History should be written as philosophy.

The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

I will not live by rules that make no sense to me

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Three fires is the international distress signal.

Why can't women tell jokes? Because we marry them!