“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.

Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

Your body will never be familiar.

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.

It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.

My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.

You go your way I’ll go your way too.

Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age – I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.

You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

I want to be a man’s man – not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you’re going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You’re just a kid.

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

It’s like you have a child and you think, ‘Everything that I’ve done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.’ It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.