I'll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world." - Paloma

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.

Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

Muse usually gestured like an amphetamine-fueled Sicilian who's nearly gotten clipped by a speeding car.

Selfish acts will only lead to your own destruction.

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

Black is the queen of colours.

The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons.

Wisdom subdues bigotry.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.