The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Whatever it is that may be bothering you, whatever it is that may have your attention arrested, you have the power to rescue yourself.

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.