Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms--Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I've never been before.

Limitations gone:Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenityMake something for whichThere's no end in sight.

Tightly held by rocksThrough winter, the ice todayBegins to come undone:A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Today's satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed in blossoms.

Beyond this life andThis world I'll have it tilMy heart's content:The bright moon that passed overThe horizon before I had my fill.

Returning to whereIt used to see blossoms, My mind, changed, Will stay on at Yoshino...Home now, and see anew.

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...

Holy crap, you are like a dog with a bone, ” I commented to Ryan.“Or just one with a boner.

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness

We could fly anywhere in the world given that we had to fly coach but we could fly anywhere in the world or do whatever we wanted to do.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.

The only life I want is one with you.