She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

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

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.

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.

America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

It's baseball. You've got to be the same guy every day, no matter if you go 4-for-4 or 0-for-4.

Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.