Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

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.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

When people ask me what it is that I want to achieve in life, I always tell them that I want to be able to make positive change in spite of all the issues that the world faces today.

Just when you think we're living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.

I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

My underwear is my own person buisness.

Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes.

Israel is near and dear to my heart

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.