People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time.

I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

The Saviour set me free from my sins.

The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

I don't think anyone here supports the legislation. But I'd like to hear you at least say that you don't support spanking by any parent, because you choose not to do it. You must think it's wrong.