I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

Give yourself permission to Risk. It is only in risk that one finds success.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.

After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a keyboard replacement. The band had no name, just my name.