Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

Genius is becoming something you were all along.

The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.