And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Collective madness is called sanity ..

Either the Bible will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from the Bible.

Sometimes horrible choices can lead to the right decision, its not where we start that's important but where we end.

Chasing your dreams with all your strength.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.