Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Wisdom of the Ages "News People" Always joking around and happy. I guess that proves that ignorance really is bliss.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

I certainly discourage people getting involved with any group or organization that foster living a homosexual lifestyle.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.

Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.