Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.

The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them!

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.