If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.

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

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

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.

It was not feasible to lose time in making careful surveys or extensive preliminary studies of possible control methods

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.

You are only limited by your own imagination

Knowledge is more important than capital. Lack of capital is a common excuse for not starting a business venture.

All I had to do was keep turning left.

Truth exists only lies are invented.

Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!