It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

People tend to take stories literally these days.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.