Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means a man has overcame the obstacles, hassles and roadblocks

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

Death stands behind every bride, every groom.

Everything that kills me , makes me feel alive

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

There is a lot that I will not do in Hollywood.

Bush's America. I wish we had more time. I didn't even vote for him the second time, and I feel like I got to defend him.