Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

All actors should experience public failure.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.