When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Escape is a process, not a pill.

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Put on your yarmulkahHere comes HannukahSo much funnukahTo celebrate Hannukah

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.