Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

There is tremendous trauma in the betrayal caused by a perpetual liar as they repeatedly commit psychological abuse.

And... a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together.

It is poetic and lyrical

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

L.A.'s kind of, like, seven really cool towns. It's so laid-back. If you go in the right spot, you can walk around, and you don't need a car.

I go wherever my creativity takes me.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.