I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Something good is a frontier

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Grub first, then ethics.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.

The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.

I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.