From everything, nothing looks to nothing.

Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Nothing is part of everything.

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.

If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.

When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.

Without nothing, everything would be nothing.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

I think the future of food is in insects.

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.