I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue.

My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

What year did Jesus think it was?

The Ides of March was a fairly cynical film.

Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

[People] just don't seem to want to give [Donald Trump] any kind of berth at all, let alone a wide berth, to govern.