Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

At the end of pain is SUCCESS!

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.