People are living books. The real library of life is community.

Had we but world enough, and time

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I’ve never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

Being alive and living aren’t the same.

I don’t existmetal pressed to pagesspilling blood, inkin vein each thought ragesSunlight shootingthrough a forest of pinesblack top windingand yellow dotted linesI am not hereonly a deep aching,a lightning flashand a tree trunk breakingSheets once...

It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and...

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they’re going to tell your business...

Peace of mind comes with truth. Lying requires you to tell different lies over and over again. Tell the truth! Create beautiful memories.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

But this is a thing that I know–to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

If you weren’t built for this life, you’d be dead by now. i think the problem is people don’t share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in...

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first ‘assistant’ was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago–and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail–it’s disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They...

Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / God;And the only way that life can go wrong is by the limited finite mind / Man.

You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!

As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life...

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices – they were about my...

THE SILENT PEOPLESome people are so rude,Living their lives with no concern for others,Or possibly just intent on pissing other people off-Annoying everyone around them.The silent people-Want to kill them-And drive forks into their skulls-Create...

Get used to it. Life doesn’t give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

My head is in another dimension. My feet are talking to their soles. My nose is detecting a hint of sweaty, overpumped poon. There’s a spider corpse perpetually hanging on the wall next to my...

When it’s about your life, it’s time to be selfish.

In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence...

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and...

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different – such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour –...

What’s the good of being alive if you don’t do anything?

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

It never occurred to me before, but I always thought of time like it was a road, or an empty plane. I could see it and mark it and claim it as mine, but the...

It is never too late to start living the life you wish you had.

Don’t expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet.

daddyand it contained within it the prospect of living and the hope of dying, of endings and beginnings, of love and loss and peace and rage, all wrapped up in two whispered syllables.

To be undefeated, to primer is to learn the game for not just your talents but for the game itself.

life is other, always there,further off, beyond you andbeyond me, always on the horizon,life which unlives us and makes us strangers,that invents our face and wears it away

No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe ‘Hansel and Gretel’ a little bit when they were walking through...

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

A virus is a living-nonliving duality.

You are living far too much in the realms of your head. That is an ugly, mean, scary place to be. I am not just saying your head is nasty, everyone’s head is. You need...

I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn’t? If you don’t have a few scars, you haven’t really lived.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as...

…you fantasize about me reading my poems to you – it doesn’t work that way – I write down everything later – living is not an after-thought…

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past

You can believe what you’ve been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something...

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.

One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.

I know there’s a principle of spirit. It works without space-time. I am subject to that principle, in spirit and in belief of body. Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect...