Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.

Your absence has gone through me

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.

May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... You have been given stewardship of what you in your faith might call a holy soul.

I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

Above all, always see Jesus in every person, and consequently treat each one not only as an equal and as a brother or sister, but also with great humility, respect and selfless generosity.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

I don't believe in the afterlife.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.