I heard a bird congratulating itselfall day for being a jay.Nobody cared. But it was gladall over again, and said so, again.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?

To say that, “I will not agree (will not accept)” is great egoism!

People just jump right to, 'We're going to create this really cool thing and put it out there and people are going to magically find it.' You have to market your marketing.

We really care about photography at Vanity Fair.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

An optimist is a man who plants two acorns and buys a hammock.

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, "Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!"

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.