All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

When you feel you are incomplete you can always console yourself with the idea of being infinite.

I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.

If I had a cat I'd buy another one so I could kick one and then the other.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.

The fear's as bad as falling.