Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.

We would give anything for what we have.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.As long as there is desire, we will not be safe

The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you’ve ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...

As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it." That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it'd be boring.

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.