I want to be braver and more honest about my life. When you're sexually abused, there's a lot of damage.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.

Winners don’t think defeat. They think victory.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.

There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

"Never stop. Never settle." I believe in this message.

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.