Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

[L]ove ... privileges another to see us in ways that would shame us and disgust others without the intervention of love.

Actors are not made, they are born.

You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.

It is interesting that [James Comey] is not doing investigations about the possible - possible ties between [Donald] Trump's campaign and the Russians.

My relationship with God is as strong as the time and energy I put into connecting with God.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?