With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

I knew every raindrop by its name.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

Compassion is the magic ingredient to an amazing life.

Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.

Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.

I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

Feel the force of forgiveness.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.