I'm in a constant process of thinking about things.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel.

If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

When we live our lives not for vanity, but for the sake of God and the betterment of humanity, that's what gives us immortality.

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.