Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.