To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.

I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.

A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'

Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.

Women really like the horses, more so than men.

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Shaking the past, making my break, taking control, that's what it takes.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.