The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.

The right thing done at the wrong timewill not bring about the right results.

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

I was this weird loner kid who got drunk by himself all the time.

Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

You have to really be careful with what you see and read because you can't believe it all.

Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.