Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

There is nothing wrong in saying something, but there should be no protection [insistence] that we are right.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

Space is a way of measuring time; time is a way of measuring space.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

Success is like toilet paper, it only seems important when you don't have it.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.