Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia.

That's what I want to do. I want to make America great again.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

I really love the festival circuit.

Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.