There's more to life than cause and effect.

She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.

There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.

The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.