If you have ever gone into the woods with me, I must love you very much.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.