Not immediately able to proceed, I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

It's only life. We all get through it.

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

Inspiration may not solve one’s deepest or darkest problems, but it can be a light when no other light shines.

...we ought also to consider as false all that is doubtful.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too late.

The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

I like to do projects that are off-the-wall and on top-of-the-wall.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.