Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

I need to be able to rock out.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.