Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

Negative feedback may be fun, but it is far less brave than endorsing something unproven and providing room to grow.

Remember the shortness of life. Be true to your dreams, talents and values today.

Being a werewolf, an alpha more so, isn't about being aggressive over others but controlling yourself, the wolf's wild virus inside my DNA, and emotions that comes with the beast.

There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

In everything we ought to look at the end.

I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in.

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.