Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

Sometimes saviors look different than you thought they would.

I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

We live through sound and light—through our technologies.

Aspiration gets stuck in some people. It's difficult to think yes. Or up. When all you feel is fight or run.

Many are they who seek to guide other to the path yet they themselves are lost

My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had that work ethic in me.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

We all arrive on Earth with a round-trip ticket.

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.