"No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone's path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way."

“I think pure light has something to do with actually seeing everything at once. It's kind of a nirvana of sorts.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.”

“I think I’m an alright twitterer.”

“The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.”

“The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.”

Source : States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

“Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had is to try to break my patterns, my habits, my kneejerk tendencies in writing. If I start to sound too much like the Ron Padgett that I've read before, I stop myself. I don't want to get locked perpetually in a mode or a level of diction or a stylistic vein - what is called a poetic voice.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

“The house of every one is to him as his castle.”

Source : Semayne's Case (1603)

“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”