You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

I have a disease

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

If you LIKE your email provider, you can KEEP your email provider. Period.

Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.

The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan.

I think I might've turned 39, look like I turned 29, feel like I turned about 19.

He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.