The search is more important than the destination
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.
We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
In the end, there is no end.
The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
It's the light of the oncoming train.
The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It's the basis of Christian hope. It's the miracle of all miracles.
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
The goal of all life is to have a ball.