I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

The digital print is becoming the look of our time, and it makes the C-print start to look like a tintype.

Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life.

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!