With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Accept your own and be yourself!

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it - it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

[I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery.

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.