Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.

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.

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

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.

God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action.

This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.

Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it, ' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.

Blue is true Yellow's jealous Green's forsaken Red's brazen White is love And black is death.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.

Jace wasn’t exactly prone to random fits of panic

Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

Music is just air moving around.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.