Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

I gave my heart away to somebody long time ago- when I was barely a man. And I never got it back.

Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us.

I believe in real soul connections. Some that can change the course of our lives. No matter how far the distance is between the souls, they are always joined at the heart of Source.

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.

I was very, very inspired [by movies].