May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

The pleasure of reading is indescribable.

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.

The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don't like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.

I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.