Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Our best history is still poetry.

History is everything that has ever happened.

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with.