I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

I'm happy to talk to anybody about anything.

Foundations exist to help charities, to help those in need. And Mr. Trump has been incredibly generous throughout his career.

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

Some people said I was annoying, but now look how far we've come.