You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.