Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer.

I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable.

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

Night begins to muffle up the day.

There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

I'm not homophobic. I'm not scared of my house.

God is gracious to some very peculiar people.