Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

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.

There's something better than an 'excuse' for your mistake, which is 'now you know how to stop it from happening again'.

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

Told ya you were special.

If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.