Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

His client needs him, he says. Needs him? But isn’t he needed at home?

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.

There aren't enough people fighting for being conservative with your sexual tastes. There's a little too much adventuresome stuff going on, so it's good to return to the basics.