I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

For though, I walk through the valley of shadows of Death, I will never fear. For You are in Me and I know You will never let me Go.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

What empowers me in my daily work and life is the knowledge that I will be guided, if I let go of my need to control. That I need only to leave space for grace to work in me.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.