“Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.”

“Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.”

“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”

“The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.”

“Originality is going back to the place where you were what you were—and finding an empty chair. Would you gladly sit on it? No, thank you. It is empty for a reason. That’s where my ass was. Not where my head is now.”

“Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.”

“Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.”

“Home is the place where they have to take you in”

“You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn’t may be”

“The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life takes place.”