Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.