I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does.

Educate every child.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

And I think I'm an adrenaline junkie, and there's nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you've written.

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

The law speaks too softly to be heard amidst the din of arms.

With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?