I kinda always wanted to be an ant.

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

Know this: you can start over, each morning.

You can close your eyes if you want. Sometimes things are less scary.

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

Some things can't be taught

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.