why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Always wash you feet last.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.