The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our ti

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.

Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

The devil doesn't sit idly by while you seek God. If you're pursuing Christ, the enemy is pursuing you.

If you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for dancing.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.