I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.

I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who cant get up off the couch because theyre so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.