It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products.

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

You can have a striker who scores 50 goals in one season but if you win nothing it means nothing.

Solomon warned us not to rush into God’s presence with words. That’s what fools do. And often, that’s what we do.

I don't think you can run for president or be president unless you're a busy person.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.