Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.

One of my favorite dialogue pieces from Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie, ” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way, ” Nathan said.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.