It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

There are some things you must understand and discover for yourself. And after discovering them, start living accordingly

Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.