If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Your confidence kills your fears when they appear. Your competence makes them not to appear at all. Be bold

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

I took a drink. "I guess it's different for you.""Hmm?" "I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?