What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

I came out around 25 publicly.

God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.

My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious.

It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.