So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

I don't like the compression on compact discs. It's lacking in air, and it's lacking in majesty.

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.