The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a father. So there is something in adulthood that has to do with accepting the half of things, allowing a renunciation of the other half, accepting half a basket instead of a full basket.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

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

My life failed on the very day I was born.