Follow the trace of timeuntil the startcollapses with the endin the space of the heart.

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.

When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition.

Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.

Through youthe world learnsto recognize itself— as heaven.

The real youis much too big to be your own.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

I'd like to thank everyone for supporting me and making me believe in my work.

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

I think writing should be about change.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.