In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

It’s payday every day of the week with Cosmic Ordering.

Isn't it time for you to free yourself from your past in order to enjoy the beauty of the present?

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.

I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

Horrible date all through high school and college. Here's an impression of me on a date in high school. Come on, chug it!

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.