Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.

And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

Money is that dear thing which, if you're not careful, you can squander your whole life thinking of.

I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he's having an affair but really don't care.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

It has been my exprience that repetitive nights of exposure to the kundalini energy followed by longer periods of reflection and pyschic networking create the fastest transitions in awareness.

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.