Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.

I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow.

We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.

Faith is taking God seriously.

You've got to feel better and then things get better.

Those who enter the country illegally violate the law.

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.

You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

I'm in a glass case of emotion