Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

The shortest and the hardest journey to make is the inner one.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn't feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

Usefulness depends on tractability.