deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

I have to live my books before I write them.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.

The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood.

Imagine you were flowing with energy and confidence, free of doubt and fear.

If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame.