I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.

We’ll stand before the piles of stones that used to be weapons, and we’ll build an altar.

There is no more hateful person than a Christian who thinks you’ve got your theology wrong.

The line between sacred and secular is man-made.

Trouble. Sweetheart. Sang. Don't. Don't slip away." He sniffed. I felt a droplet meeting my forehead.Gabriel was crying."I need you, " he whispered. "Comeback to me. I need you.

My swag was phenomenal.

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat

But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.