“We could plan a murder Or start a religion.”

Jealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

I’ve noticed that when people are joking they’re usually dead serious, and when they’re serious, they’re usually pretty funny.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?

Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.

This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Getting drunk . . . you’re in complete control up to a point. It’s your choice, every time you take a sip.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren’t willing to do that.

Where’s your will to be weird?

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.

No plan ever survives its first encounter with the enemy.

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings.

Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn’t occur again.

And that was always our plan. Do well in the first three states, and then compete and have a very strong night on Super Tuesday. I think we’re ideally positioned to do exactly that.