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

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.