Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

…reality catches up with you eventually.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

There is no end to the hatred in men, but there is an end to the hatred in a man. If your hatred is just, and deeds will get you to the end of it, then go and do what must be done.

I heard you laughing, ' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.

And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.