One day Time will die And love will bury it

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

God is my peace.

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.

Nothing like an orange and olive green-striped couch sitting on orange carpet and surrounded by dark wood paneling to get the inspiration rolling.

He feels her heart race madly against his own and for a second he thinks it’s finally happened, he’s come alive.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.

God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.