I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Bear no malice for the ones who leave you.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.

In every opportunity, question your beliefs. Don’t forget that most of the beliefs are preposterous empty stories!

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

If we teach by the Spirit and you listen by the Spirit, some one of us will touch on your circumstance, sending a personal prophetic epistle just to you.

Join the crazed institution of the stars.

In the course of your education you have always been taught to look for the right answer - but you must also know that in life, sometimes the right answer is that there isn't one.