You know, there's a reason we can remember, " [Catarina] said more softly."That's much easier when your life has an expiration date.""It may be more important for us.

Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion.""No, " [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.

I am only six foot three, by the way.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.