The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?

You are who you choose to be.

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it

The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

Fall several times doesn't matter, how many times you stand up matters

Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.

For everything that's known about Lyme disease, there are still an extraordinary number of unknowns in some fairly fundamental areas.

The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220, 222)

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.