If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!

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.'

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

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.

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

There are bands now, and for years, that called themselves emo. I never followed that stuff.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.

Love and liveAnd live and loveEach momentTo the fullest.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.