I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

I might love my e-reader, but I'd never pass up the chance to browse real books.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

When he wins the battle, the Warrior celebrates.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

When people are like each other they tend to like each other.

Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.

Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves.