You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

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.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Love is much like a wild rose beautiful and calm but willing to draw blood in its defense.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.

True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming; it is fire from heaven.

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

Now some they do and some they don't And some you just can't tell And some they will and some they won't With some it's just as well.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

I love eggs fried over medium.