How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

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If we were never depressed we should not be alive

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.

I was a Clinton Democrat for twenty years.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something

Benjamin Franklin said it best, 'Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.'

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.