I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.

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.

The sole duty of a man is to love his Maker with all his soul.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind.

Conservatism in general is bad, and it's racist and sexist.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.