Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.

Dharma is found because one cannot create what is already there.

It is not possible to be intellectually honest and believe in gods. And it is not possible to believe in gods and be a true scientist.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

Independent development can be a virus that can infect others.