This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

There are things better left untouched by words.

Let all the love and beauty of our lives bloom like a flower reflected through our smiles.

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

Love your flaws, and own your quirks.

To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.

While there is an attempt by the Trump people to say that California isn't really America. California certainly seems like America to me.

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.