Irony is only skin deep.
A beautiful sentence and a beautiful sunrise derive from the same source.
Poetry exists in the gap between the known and the unknown.
I have my truest thoughts when I’m not thinking.
Homer was a true poet. He made the gods ridiculous.
To hell with irony and wit! I read to be moved.
That most destructive of all myths: tomorrow.
The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.
In a world without meaning nothing is meaningless.
Know some good songs. Sing them to yourself.
Every time you feel the urge to reflect, do pushups instead.
One million light years from now it will still be now.
Just when you think progress has been made the same old lies come creeping around again.
There is more chance than choice in our decisions.
Marriage binds people; love sets them free.
Tears of grief and tears of joy are the same tears.
I count the need to be right among the major illnesses.
People come first-before ideas, beliefs, causes, ideals, goals. I try not to let anything subvert my love of people.
Nothing is ever ahead of us: it is today, always today.
When you separate thought from life you get philosophy.