And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

The sea reminds me of my finiteness, limitations, minuteness and powerlessness, because the sea is none of these.

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ...

If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.

Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

Forestry is the work of nation builders.