We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.

It has always been the role of the shaman to go into an altered state of consciousness and track down where the soul fled to in the alternate realities and return it to the body of the client.

Love is a state of union. When you can receive love, you can know union.

Everything in your dream means exactly what you think it means.

Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death.

I think every writer has a little freak in ‘em.

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

He who lives in despair / takes and gives in vain.

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.