I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Death's in the good-bye.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Need is not quite belief.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

Be careful of words they can be both daisies and bruises.

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

It doesnt matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was.

It doesnt matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.

Depression is boring I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea a boat that floats home or does not.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

A starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out

It is love that walks away and yet we have terrible mouths and soft milk hands. We worry with like. We walk away like love.

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

Stunts are really fun.

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives.

And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

There is no substitute for mothers milk.

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into your beautiful eyes.

My future is righteousness.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.

Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.

I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.