Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.

Art has always been aware of itself as art.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

In the end I would rather wonder than know

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

All successful people learn to navigate diverse personalities. So don't loose hopes after failure, try other ways and you'll reach there.

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.I'm old.

I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.