the struggle is not with others, but within us, to do what we are called to do

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

In the beginning we define what is spiritual. But as you go on, you see that everybody and everything is an instrument of infinity.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

The day was dark as a lawyer's soul.