Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

until only infinity remained of beauty

Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

There are three things in life...not worrying what they are, not caring what others may think they are, and enjoying the wonder of what they might be.

Better to get off the train at this station. Than to do it later, when it's too late. Remember Time doesn't wait!

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.