Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

What are your interests?""Your son in my room, " I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon, " I said. "Astronomy.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

I have only known two men's souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being.

Finish is a laundry powder. I feel guilty when I finish a book.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

Newt Gingrich has criticized 'New York elites' who ride the subway. One of those subway elites threw up on my pants this morning.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

There is a clear link between protecting your car and home and protecting your life. So life insurance was a logical addition to the AA's range.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you