I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

Um... You know, at this point, I think we're co-creators with the fans. We use a lot of feedback.

North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.