I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.

I put a knife in your hand and your first instinct was to stab me.""You tried to stab me first, " I objected without thinking.

I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.

I called the desert into a storm.

I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

Simply, there are many things I would like to do.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.