I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

To a materialist life is nothing but a complex self-sustaining pattern, easily disrupted and gone when destroyed.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.

There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment.