Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

You were free, you are free and you will be free.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

The illusion is we are only physical.

. . . it’s okay if we get mad at each other?”“Yeah, Buddy, it’s OK, as long as we don’t stay mad, and as long as we forgive each other when we mess up.”from upcoming book, "When I Am in Your Arms.

Criticism, upon the right one, surpasses and prevails, nothing since it causes a sign of self-discredit.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

All the lyrical rappers I know is broke.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.