The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

I began with the desire to speak with the dead.

Everything has a price.

I don't have to fight if I don't want to.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

They threw me off the haytruck about noon.

The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.