I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise

Some of the epidemic may overwhelm society as a physical expression of energy hysteria.

People not cry 'coztheir weak, It Beacaus They've been srong...GFor too long !!

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.

I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.