I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

Time has no sense but it makes all the sense

One day Your dog is going to safe your life, that's a fact.

Don't try to reach God with your understanding that is impossible. Reach him in love that is possible.

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

You cannot force meditation, you can only create the situation. And if the situation is created rightly, then meditation happens automatically.