TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.
I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.
The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 247 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 247.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
None of my problems come from the people I've killed.