Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.

Two Parts. One Whole.

Sure, he was attracted to her, but women always had to go beyond that.Women [had] nesting fantasies. It wasn't long before they wereredecorating your apartment and criticizing your choice of mustard.

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

I took a lot of writing courses.

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.

If I heard there was a new show, and the creators were writing about how they met, I would be like, "Pass!"

The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.