I love to swim, and I love being near water.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it, be it, and spread it.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside.

A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

As I've gotten older there's just more awareness around what is good for my body internally, externally, physically. It's all about reading labels and being aware and conscious of what goes in.

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

Look on the bright side; that's one bullet that's not going to hit me.