You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Like blood, money is a blessing that should be shared, but you must be a responsible giver.

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Those who believe in ghosts always see them.

I'd love to see us get to a point where you can make a movie and not worry about the limits of the violence. Then I think they'd get so violent that people would get bored of it.

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.