But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.

I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.

The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.

Touring and putting out records is fun and cool, but I've been doing it for a long time.

What will you do with them?" "Redo them in charcoal, probably." "And then?" "Tack them to my bedroom wall." Bedroom wall? "Who wouldn't want to wake up to this?

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.