Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body.

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.

The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.

Great mission lies ahead of us.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.