...as young and as ancient as Spring....

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

Don't trust your head, Samwise, it is not the best part of you.

He has led us in here against our fears, but he will lead us out again, at whatever cost to himself.

...and all the stars flowered in the sky.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror....

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.

Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

We're taught to trade. We're not taught to give.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.