Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

The hit and run of thoughts on ideas is a havoc.

You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.

You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

Ive never taken a vacation. Ive never been to Europe. Every time I planned to do something big, I got a job, and I could never pass that up.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

The intuitive magician will find a certain relationship between the earth zone and the muladhara center.

I hate any kind of owing of anything.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

When you wear a mask, it changes your outward appearance, but also has an influence on you, inside.