What do any of us really know about love?

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.

Be honest with yourself, face your feelings and what they really mean, then you will be able to deal with them and move on.

predicament, n. The wage of consistency.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.