Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

If I could do it over, I'd do better.