...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.

National liberation is necessarily an act of culture

I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth.

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

The only thing I've been concerned about is whether I could grow my heart thing enough to protect me from the harsh western Canadian winter.