Choice is a signature of our species.

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.

Watch the beauty of your life tree old leaves falling and allowing new ones to sprout !

Prouder than a preschooler showin' refrigerator art!

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Your say is not yours unless you say it

Literary Agent: “I meant manuscript wise.”Tina: “Ohh. Um, yes. I’ve brought a few with me, just some rough drafts. (shuffle, shuffle) You might say something of an experiment.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

In the end one only experiences oneself.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.