The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.