Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

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.

Let your thoughts and intentions always be forgiving and loving so that you may bring true peace to mankind.

Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid.

Somtimes silence can be the loudest thing.

Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

You are forever alone.

I've been college, but to be truthfully frank, weed is knowledge because it makes me think