He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

If they endangered us, they also saved us from danger. If they harmed us, we have harmed them.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.

Eggs are very much like small boys. If you overheat them or over beat them, they will turn on you and no amount of future love will right the wrong.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

Don't give to get. Give to inspire others to give.