It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

If it sounds good, it is good.

I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.

We are to build ourselves up, get to know God's will, build systems, structures, work hard towards His will and stop expecting miracles.

Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it?

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Technology is the only means through which you touch on new things.

Even world class performers can benefit from walk breaks.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

I work out a lot - five, six, days a week. I take yoga classes and go to the gym - I love doing it and I have the time to do it. Not everybody has that option.

Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance