I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.

Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.

There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.

I know I would crumble if I lost you.

A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

It would be great to have Bach in one corner, Bessie Smith in another, John Lennon in another. That's what I'd ideally like. A studio of the dead.

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.