For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all.

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.

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

It's nice to begin each day with an open mind but a wonderful fulfillment will come with an open heart.

If you do everything you should do and do not do anything you should not do you will according to the best available statistics live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.

My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.

Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?

The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.

Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.