Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

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

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

People tend to take stories literally these days.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.