For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.