Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

It's a queer business, making oneself blind.

With eye and hand and breath and will.

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic...

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

I was not in favor of U.S. troops in Lebanon. And I voted against it.

Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.