In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of as easily.

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.

The rain turns lighter, turns to snow. And I have a sense that we have not yet arrived, that we are still reaching. For each other. For who we are meant to be.

i WILL reach success because i will not accept anything less

The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

I always gave it the best shot I had, whether it went my way or not that night.

You and your name dropping he said, I knew Michael, I knew Sammael. The angel Gabriel did my hair. Its like I'm with the band with biblical figures.

We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.