“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

The tigers have found me and I do not care.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.

Every single day all the shitty shit that’s ever happened to you gets farther away and all the good shit that’s gonna happen to you gets closer.

Every single day all the shitty shit that’s ever happened to you gets farther away and all the good shit that’s gonna happen to you gets closer.

When you have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen to you or what your career’s going to end up like and you’re just really open to anything, then you don’t really have anything to loose.

Japan will change. Let’s create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world

All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

We keep talking about saving the planet, but no matter what happens, the planet will outlive us. It’s our species that’s at risk. It’s time we reframe how we think and talk about climate cancer.